Scheme - Takis Papatsonis

There is no brighter thing than Truth.

Do you search with love and madness to find her?

Is your research fruitful like the Night,

knowing for sure that the Sun will burst pompously?

your research like the Night, when no matter how many darknesses

may whip, comely something always sparkles, the plenty of

the stars, or, at least, that anxious through clouds

dull dawn of a light that leads.

Contrariwise, who doesn't care for Truth,

is his negligence's supposed serenity

like the eternal night of the wicked death, - fruitless,

without any thing to be feared or expected, without beginning,

without end, unconscious, like the bare concept

of death, without trophies of colors, without even the splendor

of a future Judgment with trumpets.

---

Takis Papatsonis (1895 - 1976) Greece

Translated by Elpenor

Source: The Greek Word