The discreet ones
Richard Georg Strauss
I am happy, it is announced out loud here
to the whole world,
what was confided to many in private,
what you have done to me;
I've said it to the whole army of the flowers,
To the violet, I said it softly,
To the rose, loudly.
Even louder to the great-eyed camomile.
And so, I have no more distress,
I remain only bright and cheerful,
For those who knew it are all dead,
And will say nothing further.