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Uplifted is the stone / And all mankind arisen!
We are thy very own, / We are no more in prison!
What bitterest grief can stay / Beside thy golden cup, / When earth and life give way / And with our Lord we sup!
To the marriage Death doth call, / The lamps are burning clear, / The virgins, ready all, / Have for their oil no fear.
Would that even now were ringing / The distance with thy throng!
And that the stars were singing / To us a human song!
Courage! for life is hasting / To endless life away; / The inward fire, unwasting, / Transfigures our dull clay!
See the stars melting, sinking / In life-wine golden-bright!
We, of the splendour drinking, / Shall grow to stars of light.
Lost, lost are all our losses!
Love is for ever free!
The full life heaves and tosses / Like an unbounded sea!
One live, eternal story!
One poem high and broad!
And sun of all our glory / The countenance of God!