The Wind and the Rose. Once in a garden there grew a rose. A wind fell in love with her. They were completely different, he – light and fair; she – immobile and heavy as blood. There came a man in wooden clogs and with his thick hands he plucked the rose. The wind leapt after him, but the man slammed the door in his face. O that I might turn to stone – wept the unlucky one – I was able to go round the whole world, I was able to stay away for years at a time, but I knew that she was always there waiting. The wind understood that, in order really to suffer, one has to be faithful.
