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Hymns to the Night, version 2-Novalis · The White Sister

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  Speaker 1: Part one of Hymns to the Night. This is a
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: Hymns to the Night by novalis translated by George MacDonald
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  Speaker 1: Part one. Before all the wondrous shows of the widespread
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  Speaker 1: space around him, what living sentient thing loves not the
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  Speaker 1: all joyous light, with its colors, its rays and undulations,
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  Speaker 1: its gentle omnipresence in the form of the wakening day,
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  Speaker 1: the giant world of the unresting constellations Inhales, it as
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  Speaker 1: the innermost soul of life, and floats dancing in its
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  Speaker 1: azure flood, the sparkling ever tranquil stone, the thoughtful imbibing plant,
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  Speaker 1: and the wild, burning, multiform beast world Inhales. It but
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  Speaker 1: more than all, the lordly stranger, with the meaning eyes,
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  Speaker 1: the swaying walk, and the sweetly closed, melodious lips. Like
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  Speaker 1: a king over earthly nature, it rouses every force to
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  Speaker 1: countless transformations, binds and unbinds innumerable alliances, hangs its heavenly
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  Speaker 1: form around every earthly substance. Its presence alone reveals the
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  Speaker 1: marvelous splendor of the kingdoms of the world. Aside, I
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  Speaker 1: turn to the holy, unspeakable, mysterious. Yes, night afar lies
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  Speaker 1: the world sunk in a deep grave, waste and lonely
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  Speaker 1: is its place in the cords of the bosom blows
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  Speaker 1: a deep sadness. I am ready to sink away in
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  Speaker 1: drops of dew and mingle with the ashes. The distances
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  Speaker 1: of memory, the wishes of youth, the dreams of childhood,
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  Speaker 1: the brief joys and vain hopes of a whole long
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  Speaker 1: life arise in gray garments like an evening vapor after
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  Speaker 1: the sunset. In other regions, the light has pitched its
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  Speaker 1: joyous tents. What if it should never return to its
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  Speaker 1: children who wait for it with the faith of innocence.
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  Speaker 1: What springs up all at once, so sweetly boding in
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  Speaker 1: my heart and stills the soft air of sadness? Dost
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  Speaker 1: thou also take a pleasure in us dusky night? What
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  Speaker 1: hold'st thou under thy mantle that, with hidden power affects
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  Speaker 1: my soul? Precious balm drips from thy hand out of
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  Speaker 1: its bundle of poppies. Thou upliftest the heavy laden pinions
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  Speaker 1: of the soul. Darkly and inexpressibly are we moved joy startled.
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  Speaker 1: I see a grave countenance, that tender and worshipful inclines
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  Speaker 1: toward me, and amid manifold entangled locks reveals the youthful
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  Speaker 1: loveliness of the Mother. How poor and childish a thing
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  Speaker 1: seems to me now the light, How joyous and welcome
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  Speaker 1: the departure of the day didst thou. Not only therefore,
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  Speaker 1: because the Knight turns away from thee, thy servants strew
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  Speaker 1: in the gulphs of space, those flashing globes, to proclaim
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  Speaker 1: in seasons of thy absence, thy omnipotence, and thy return
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  Speaker 1: more heavenly than these glittering stars. We hold the eternal
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  Speaker 1: eyes which the Knight hath opened within us. Farther they
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  Speaker 1: see than the palest of those countless hosts. Needing no
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  Speaker 1: aid from the light, they penetrate the depths of a
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  Speaker 1: loving soul that fills a loftier region with bliss, ineffable glory.
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  Speaker 1: To the Queen of the world, to the great prophetess
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  Speaker 1: of holier worlds, to the foster mother of blissful love.
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  Speaker 1: She sends thee to me, Thou tenderly beloved, the gracious
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  Speaker 1: son of a Knight. Now am I awake? For now
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  Speaker 1: am i thine and mine? Thou hast made me know
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  Speaker 1: the Knight and brought her to me to be my life.
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  Speaker 1: Thou hast made of me a man. Consume my body
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  Speaker 1: with the ardor of my soul that I tuned to
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  Speaker 1: finer air, may mingle more closely with thee, and then
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  Speaker 1: our bridal Knight endure forever and of Part one Part
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  Speaker 1: two of Hymns to the Knight by novalis translated by
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  Speaker 1: George MacDonald. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.
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  Speaker 1: Must the morning always return? Will the despotism of the
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  Speaker 1: earthly never cease? Unholy activity consumes the angel visit of
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  Speaker 1: the night. Will the time never come when Love's hidden
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  Speaker 1: sacrifice shall burn eternally to the light. A season was set,
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  Speaker 1: But everlasting and boundless is the dominion of the night.
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  Speaker 1: Endless is the duration of sleep. Holy sleep, gladden not
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  Speaker 1: too seldom in this earthly day labor the devoted servant
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  Speaker 1: of the night. Fools alone mistake thee knowing nought of sleep,
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  Speaker 1: but the shadow which in the gloaming of the real night,
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  Speaker 1: Thou pitifully castest over us. They feel thee not in
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  Speaker 1: the golden flood of the grapes, in the magic oil
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  Speaker 1: of the almond tree, and the brown juice of the poppy.
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  Speaker 1: They know not that it is thou who haltest the
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  Speaker 1: bosom of the tender maiden and makest to Heaven of
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  Speaker 1: her lap. Never suspect it ist thou, the portress of Heaven,
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  Speaker 1: that steppest to meet them out of ancient stories, bearing
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  Speaker 1: the key to the dwellings of the blest, silent messenger
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  Speaker 1: of secrets. Infinite end of Part two, Part three of
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  Speaker 1: Hymns to the Knight by novalis translated by George mac donald.
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  Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Once when
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  Speaker 1: I was shedding bitter tears, when dissolved in pain, my
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  Speaker 1: hope was melting away, and I stood alone by the
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  Speaker 1: barren hillock, which, in its narrow, dark bosom, hid the
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  Speaker 1: vanished form of my life, lonely as never yet was
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  Speaker 1: a lonely man, driven by anguish, unspeakable, powerless and no
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  Speaker 1: longer aught but a conscious misery. As there I looked
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  Speaker 1: about me for help, unable to go on or to
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  Speaker 1: turn back, and clung to the fleeting extinguished life with
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  Speaker 1: an endless longing. Then, out of the blue distances from
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  Speaker 1: the hills of my ancient bliss, came a shiver of twilight,
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  Speaker 1: and at once snapped the bond of birth. The fetter
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  Speaker 1: of the light away fled of a glory of her world,
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  Speaker 1: and with it my morning. The sadness flowed together into
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  Speaker 1: a new, unfathomable world. Thou soul of the night heavenly slumber,
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  Speaker 1: didst come upon me? The region gently upheaved itself, and
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  Speaker 1: over it hovered my unbound new born spirit. The hillock
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  Speaker 1: became a cloud of dust, and through the cloud I
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  Speaker 1: saw the glorified face of my beloved in her eyes.
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  Speaker 1: Eternity reposed. I laid hold of her hands, and the
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  Speaker 1: tears became a sparkling chain that could not be broken
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  Speaker 1: into the distance, swept by like a tempest thousands of
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  Speaker 1: years on her neck. I welcomed the new life with
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  Speaker 1: ecstatic tears. Never was such another dream then, first, and
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  Speaker 1: ever since, I hold fast an eternal, unchangeable faith in
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  Speaker 1: the heaven of the night and its sun, the Beloved.
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  Speaker 1: End of Part three, Part four of Hymns to the
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  Speaker 1: Night by Novalis translated by George mac donald. This LibriVox
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  Speaker 1: recording is in the public domain. Now I know and
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  Speaker 1: will come the last morning, when the light no more
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  Speaker 1: scares away night and love, when sleep shall be without waking,
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  Speaker 1: and but one continuous dream. I feel in me a
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  Speaker 1: celestial exhaustion. Long and weariful was my pilgrimage to the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Grave, and crushing was the cross. The crystal wave,
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  Speaker 1: which imperceptible to the ordinary sense, springs in the dark
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  Speaker 1: bosom of the hillock against whose foot breaks the flood
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  Speaker 1: of the world. He who has tasted it, He who
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  Speaker 1: has stood on the mountain frontier of the world, and
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  Speaker 1: looked across into the new land and into the abode
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  Speaker 1: of the night. Verily he turns not again into the
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  Speaker 1: tumult of the world, into the land where dwells the
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  Speaker 1: light in ceaseless unrest. On those heights he builds for
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  Speaker 1: himself tabernacles, tabernacles of peace. There longs and loves and
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  Speaker 1: gazes across, until the welcomest of all hours draws him
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  Speaker 1: down into the waters of the spring afloat. Above remains
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  Speaker 1: what is earthly and is swept back in storms. But
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  Speaker 1: what became wholly by the touch of love runs free
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  Speaker 1: through hidden ways to the region beyond, where, like odors,
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  Speaker 1: it mingles with love asleep, still wakest thou cheerful light
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  Speaker 1: the weary man to his labor and into me poorest
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  Speaker 1: gladsome life. But thou wilest meen not away from memory's
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  Speaker 1: moss grown monument. Gladly will I bestir the deedy hands
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  Speaker 1: everywhere behold where thou hast need of me? Bepraise the
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  Speaker 1: rich pomp of thy splendor, pursue unwearied, the lovely harmonies
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  Speaker 1: of thy skilled handicraft. Gladly contemplate the thoughtful pace of
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  Speaker 1: thy mighty radiant clock, Explore the balance of the forces
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  Speaker 1: and the laws of the wondrous play of countless worlds
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  Speaker 1: and their seasons. But true to the Knight remains my
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  Speaker 1: secret heart, and to creative love her daughter. Canst thou
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  Speaker 1: show me a heart eternally true? Has thy son friendly
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  Speaker 1: eyes that know me? Do thy stars lay hold of
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  Speaker 1: my longing hand? Do they return me the tender pressure
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  Speaker 1: and the caressing word? Was it thou didst bedeck them
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  Speaker 1: with colors and a flickering outline? Or was it she
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  Speaker 1: who gave to thy jewels, a higher, a dearer significance,
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  Speaker 1: What delight, what pleasure offers thy life to outweigh the
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  Speaker 1: transports of death wears not everything that inspirits us the
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  Speaker 1: livery of the night thy Mother. It is she who
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  Speaker 1: brings THEE forth, and to her thou owest all thy glory.
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  Speaker 1: Thou wouldst vanish into thyself. Thou wouldst dissipate in boundless
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  Speaker 1: space if she did not hold thee fast, if she
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  Speaker 1: swaddled thee. Not so that thou grewest warm and flaming,
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  Speaker 1: gavest birth to the universe. Verily I was before thou wast.
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  Speaker 1: The Mother sent me with my sisters to inhabit thy world,
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  Speaker 1: to sanctify it with love, that it might be an
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  Speaker 1: ever present memorial, To plant it with flowers unfading. As
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  Speaker 1: yet they have not ripened, These thoughts divine. As yet
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  Speaker 1: there is small trace of our coming apocalypse. One day
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  Speaker 1: thy clock will point to the end of time, and
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  Speaker 1: then thou shalt be as one of us, and shalt
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  Speaker 1: full of ardent longing, be extinguished and die. I feel
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  Speaker 1: in me the close of thy activity. I taste heavenly
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  Speaker 1: freedom and happy restoration, with wild pangs I recognize thy
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  Speaker 1: distance from our home, thy feud with the ancient lordly heaven.
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  Speaker 1: Thy rage and thy raving are in vain consumable stands
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  Speaker 1: the cross victory flag of our race over I pilgrim,
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  Speaker 1: where every pain zest only of pleasure shall one day
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  Speaker 1: remain yet a few moments. Then free am I and
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  Speaker 1: intoxicated in Love's lap. Lie life everlasting lifts wave like
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  Speaker 1: at me. I gaze from its summit down after thee
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  Speaker 1: o sun. Thou must vanish yon hillock beneath a shadow
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  Speaker 1: will bring thee thy cooling wreath. Oh draw at my heart, love,
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  Speaker 1: draw till I am gone, that fallen asleep, I still
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  Speaker 1: may love on. I feel the flow of Death's youth
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  Speaker 1: giving flood to balsam, and ether it changes my blood.
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  Speaker 1: I live all the daytime in faith and in might,
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  Speaker 1: in holy rapture. I die every night and of Part
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  Speaker 1: four Part five of Hymns to the Night by novalis
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  Speaker 1: translated by George mac Donald. This LibriVox recording is in
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  Speaker 1: the public domain. In ancient times, an iron fate lauded
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  Speaker 1: it with dumb force over the widespread families of men.
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  Speaker 1: A gloomy oppression swathed their anxious souls. The Earth was boundless,
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  Speaker 1: The abode of the gods and their home from eternal ages,
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  Speaker 1: stood its mysterious structure. Beyond the red hills of the morning.
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  Speaker 1: In the sacred bosom of the sea dwelt the sun,
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  Speaker 1: the all enkindling live luminary, an aged giant up bore
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  Speaker 1: the happy world. Prisoned beneath mountains lay the first born
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  Speaker 1: sons of Mother Earth, helpless in their destroying fury against
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  Speaker 1: the new glorious race of gods and their kindred, glad
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  Speaker 1: hearted men. Ocean's dusky green abyss was the lap of
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  Speaker 1: a goddess. In the crystal grottoes reveled a wanton folk. Rivers, trees, flowers,
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  Speaker 1: and beasts had human wits. Sweeter tasted the wine poured
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  Speaker 1: out by youth impersonated. A god was in the grape clusters,
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  Speaker 1: a loving, motherly goddess up grew in the full golden sheaves.
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  Speaker 1: Love's sacred carousal was a sweet worship of the fairest
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  Speaker 1: of the goddesses. Life reveled through the centuries like one springtime,
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  Speaker 1: an ever variegated festival of the children of Heaven and
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  Speaker 1: the dwellers on the Earth. All races, childlike adored the
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  Speaker 1: ethereal thousandfold flame as the one sublimest thing in the world.
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  Speaker 1: It was but a fancy, a horrible dream shape that
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  Speaker 1: fearsome to the merry tables strode and wrapped the spirit
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  Speaker 1: in wild consternation. The gods themselves here counsel knew nor
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  Speaker 1: showed to fill the stifling heart with consolation. Mysterious was
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  Speaker 1: the monster's pathless road, whose rage would heed no prayer
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  Speaker 1: and no twas Death, who broke the banquet up with fears,
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  Speaker 1: with anguish, with dire pain and bitter tears. Eternally from
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  Speaker 1: all things here disparted that sway the heart with pleasure's
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  Speaker 1: joyous flow, divided from the loved, whom broken hearted, vain,
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  Speaker 1: longing tosses and unceasing woe in a dull dream, to struggle,
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  Speaker 1: faint and thwarted, seemed always granted to the dead. Below
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  Speaker 1: broke lay a merry wave of human glory on Death's
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  Speaker 1: inevitable promontory. With daring flight, aloft, false pinioned, sweep the
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  Speaker 1: horrid thing with beauty's robe, men cover. A gentle youth
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  Speaker 1: puts out his torch to sleep. Sweet comes the end
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  Speaker 1: like moaning lute of lover, cool shadow floods o'er melting
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  Speaker 1: memory creep so sang the song for misery. Was the
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  Speaker 1: mover still undeciphered A lay the endless night, the solemn
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  Speaker 1: symbol of the far off might. The old world began
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  Speaker 1: to decline. The pleasure garden of the young race withered
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  Speaker 1: away up into opener regions and desolate, forsaking his childhood,
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  Speaker 1: struggled the growing man. The gods vanished with their retinue.
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  Speaker 1: Nature stood alone and lifeless. Dry number and rigid measure
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  Speaker 1: bound her with iron chains as into dust and air.
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  Speaker 1: The priceless blossoms of life fell away in wood words obscure.
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  Speaker 1: Gone was wander, working faith, and the all transforming, all
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  Speaker 1: uniting angel comrade the imagination. A cold north wind blew
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  Speaker 1: unkindly over the torpid plain, and the wonderland first froze,
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  Speaker 1: then evaporated into ether, the far depths of heaven, filled
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  Speaker 1: with flashing worlds, into the deeper sanctuary, into the more
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  Speaker 1: exalted region of the mind. The soul of the world retired,
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  Speaker 1: with all her powers, there to rule until the dawn
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  Speaker 1: should break of the glory universal. No longer was the light,
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  Speaker 1: the abode of the gods, and the heavenly token of
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  Speaker 1: their presence, they cast over them the veil of the night.
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  Speaker 1: The night became the mighty womb of revelation. Into it
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  Speaker 1: the gods went back and fell asleep to go abroad
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  Speaker 1: in new and more glorious shapes. Over the transfigured world.
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  Speaker 1: Among the people, which untimely ripe was become of all
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  Speaker 1: the most scornful and insolently hostile to the blessed innocence
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  Speaker 1: of youth, appeared the new world in guise never seen before.
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  Speaker 1: In the song favoring hut of poverty, a son of
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  Speaker 1: the first maid and Mother, the eternal fruit of mysterious embrace.
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  Speaker 1: The foreseeing, rich, blossoming wisdom of the East at once
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  Speaker 1: recognized the new beginning of the new age. A star
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  Speaker 1: showed it the way to the lowly cradle of the King.
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  Speaker 1: In the name of the far reaching future. They did
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  Speaker 1: him homage with luster and odor, the highest wonders of nature.
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  Speaker 1: In solitude, the heavenly Heart unfolded itself till a flower
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  Speaker 1: chalice of almighty love, upturned to the supreme face of
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  Speaker 1: the Father, and resting on the bliss boding bosom of
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  Speaker 1: the sweetly solemn mother, with deifying fervor, the prophetic eye
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  Speaker 1: of the blooming child beheld the years to come. For Saul,
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  Speaker 1: untroubled over the earthly lot of his own days, the
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  Speaker 1: beloved offspring of his divine stem ere long, the most
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  Speaker 1: childlike souls by true love, marvelously possessed, gathered about him
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  Speaker 1: like flowers, sprang up a new strange life in his presence,
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  Speaker 1: words inexhaustible, and tidings the most joyful fell like sparks
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  Speaker 1: of a divine spirit from his friendly lips from afar
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  Speaker 1: shore came a singer borne under the clear sky of
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  Speaker 1: hellas to Palestine, and gave up his whole heart to
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  Speaker 1: the marvelous child, the youth Art, Thou who ages long
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  Speaker 1: hast stood upon our graves, lost in a maze of
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  Speaker 1: weening sign in the darkness of God's tidings. Good whence
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  Speaker 1: hints of growth, humanity is gleaning for that we long on,
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  Speaker 1: that we sweetly brood, which erst in woe had lost
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  Speaker 1: all life and meaning. In everlasting life, death found its
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  Speaker 1: goal for Thou art, death, and thou first makest us
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  Speaker 1: whole filled with joy. The singer went on to Hindostan.
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  Speaker 1: His heart intoxicated with sweetest love, and poured it out
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  Speaker 1: in fiery songs under that tender sky, so that a
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  Speaker 1: thousand hearts bowed to him, and the good news sprang
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  Speaker 1: up with a thousand branches. Soon after the singer's departure,
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  Speaker 1: his precious life was made a sacrifice for the deep
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  Speaker 1: fall of man. He died in his youth, torn away
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  Speaker 1: from his loved world, from his weeping mother and his
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  Speaker 1: trembling friends. His lovely mouth emptied the dark cup of
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  Speaker 1: unspeakable wrongs in horrible anguish. The birth of the new
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  Speaker 1: world drew near. Hard he rustled with the terrors of
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  Speaker 1: old death. Heavy lay the weight of the old world
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  Speaker 1: upon him. Yet once more he looked kindly at his mother.
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  Speaker 1: Then came the releasing hand of the love eternal, and
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  Speaker 1: he fell asleep only a few days, hung a deep
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  Speaker 1: veil over the roaring sea, over the quaking land. Countless
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  Speaker 1: tears wept his loved ones. The mystery was unsealed. Heavenly
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  Speaker 1: spirits heaved the ancient stone from the gloomy grave. Angels
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  Speaker 1: sat by the sleeper, sweetly outbodied from his dreams, awaked
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  Speaker 1: in new, godlike glory. He clombed the apex of the
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  Speaker 1: new born world, buried with his own hand the old
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  Speaker 1: corpse in the forsaken cavity, and with hand Almighty laid
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  Speaker 1: upon it the stone which no power shall again upheave.
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  Speaker 1: Yet weep, thy loved ones over thy grave, tears of joy,
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  Speaker 1: tears of emotion, tears of endless thanksgiving. Ever afresh with
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  Speaker 1: joyous start, see THEE rise again and themselves with THEE.
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  Speaker 1: Behold THEE weep with soft fervor on the blessed bosom
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  Speaker 1: of thy Mother. Walk in thoughtful communion with thy friends,
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  Speaker 1: uttering words plucked us from the tree of life. See
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  Speaker 1: THEE hasten, full of longing, into thy Father's arms, bearing
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  Speaker 1: with THEE youthful humanity and the inexhaustible cup of the
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  Speaker 1: golden future. Soon the Mother hastened after THEE in heavenly triumph.
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  Speaker 1: She was the first with THEE in the new home.
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  Speaker 1: Since then, long ages have flowed past and in splend
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  Speaker 1: and are ever increasing. Hath bestirred itself thine new creation,
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  Speaker 1: and thousands have, out of pangs and tortures, followed THEE,
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  Speaker 1: filled with faith and longing and truth, and are walking
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  Speaker 1: about with THEE and the heavenly Virgin in the Kingdom
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  Speaker 1: of Love, minister in the temple of heavenly Death, and
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  Speaker 1: are forever thine. Uplifted is the stone, and all mankind
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  Speaker 1: is risen. We all remain thine own, and vanished is
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  Speaker 1: our prison. All troubles flee away before thy golden cup.
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  Speaker 1: For earth nor life can stay. When with our Lord
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  Speaker 1: we sup till the marriage death. Doth call no virgin
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  Speaker 1: holdeth back. The lamps burn illustrous on all of oil,
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  Speaker 1: there is no lack. Would thy fur feet were waking
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  Speaker 1: the echoes of our street, and that the stars were
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  Speaker 1: making signal with voices sweet to THEE, O, Mother Maiden.
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  Speaker 1: Ten thousand hearts aspire in this life sorrow laden THEE.
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  Speaker 1: Only they desire in THEE. They hope for healing in THEE.
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  Speaker 1: Expect true rest. When thou their safety setling, shalt clasp
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  Speaker 1: them to thy breast with disappointment, burning who made in
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  Speaker 1: hell their bed at a last from this world, turning
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  Speaker 1: to THEE, have looked and fled. Helpful Thou hast appeared
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  Speaker 1: to us in many a pain. Now to thy home
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  Speaker 1: we are near it, not to go out again. Now
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  Speaker 1: at no grave are weeping, such as do love and pray.
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  Speaker 1: The gift that love is keeping from none is taken
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  Speaker 1: away to soothe and quiet our longing night comes and
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  Speaker 1: stills the smart Heaven's children round us thronging. Now watch
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  Speaker 1: and ward our heart. Courage for life is striding to
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  Speaker 1: endless life along the sense in love abiding grows clearer
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  Speaker 1: and more strong. One day, the stars down dripping shall
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  Speaker 1: flow in golden wine. We of that nectar, sipping as
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  Speaker 1: the living stars shall shine. Free from the tomb emerges
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  Speaker 1: love to die nevermore fulfilled life heeds and surges a
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  Speaker 1: sea without ashore, all night, all blissful leisure, one jubilating ode,
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  Speaker 1: and the sun of all our pleasure, the countenance of God.
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  Speaker 1: End of Part five, Part six of Hymns to the
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  Speaker 1: Night by novalis translated by George MacDonald. This LibriVox recording
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  Speaker 1: is in the public domain. Longing after death into the
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  Speaker 1: bosom of the earth, out of the light's dominions, Death's
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  Speaker 1: pains are but the bursting forth of glad departure's pinions.
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  Speaker 1: Swift in the narrow little boat, Swift to the heavenly shore.
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  Speaker 1: We float, blest be the everlasting night. And blest the
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  Speaker 1: eternal slumber. We are heated with the day too bright
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  Speaker 1: and withered up with cumber. We are weary of that
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  Speaker 1: life abroad. Come. We will now go home to God,
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  Speaker 1: where longer in this world abide. While love and truth
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  Speaker 1: here cherish. That which is old is set aside for us.
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  Speaker 1: The new may perish alone. He stands and sore, downcast
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  Speaker 1: who loves with pious warmth? The past the past, where
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  Speaker 1: yet the human spirit, in lofty flames did rise, where
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  Speaker 1: men the Father did inherit his countenance, recognize, and in
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  Speaker 1: simplicity made ripe. Many grew like there are type the past,
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  Speaker 1: wherein still rich in bloom, old stems did virgin, glorious,
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  Speaker 1: and children for the world to come sought pain and
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  Speaker 1: death victorious. And though both life and pleasure spake, yet
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  Speaker 1: many a heart for love did break. The past where
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  Speaker 1: to the glow of youth, God yet himself declared and
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  Speaker 1: early death in loving truth, the young beheld and dared,
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  Speaker 1: anguish and torture, patient bore to prove they loved him
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  Speaker 1: as of yore with anxious yearning. Now we see that
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  Speaker 1: past in darkness, drenched with this world's water. Never we
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  Speaker 1: shall find our hot thirst quenchured to our old home,
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  Speaker 1: we have to go that blessed time again to know
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  Speaker 1: what yet doth hinder our return long since repose our
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  Speaker 1: precious Their grave is of our life. The born we
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  Speaker 1: shrink from times ungracious, by not a hope are we decoyed?
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  Speaker 1: The heart is full, The world is void, infinite and
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  Speaker 1: mysterious thrills through me a sweet trembling, as if from
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  Speaker 1: far there echo'd thus a sigh our grief, resembling the
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  Speaker 1: dear ones long as well as I, and send to
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  Speaker 1: me their waiting sigh. Down to the sweet bride, and
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  Speaker 1: away to the beloved Jesus courage. The evening shades grow
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  Speaker 1: gray of all our griefs. To ease us, a dream
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  Speaker 1: will dash our chains apart and lay us on the
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  Speaker 1: Father's heart. End of Part six and end of Hymns
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  Speaker 1: to the Night by Novalis translated by George mac donald.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for listening.