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HUSH then / why do you cry? / It's you and me / the same as before.
If you hear a rustle / it's only a rabbit / gone back to his hole / in a bustle.
If something stirs in the branches / overhead, it will be a squirrel moving / uneasily, disturbed by the stress / of our loving.
Why should you cry then? / Are you afraid of God / in the dark?
I'm not afraid of God. / Let him come forth. / If he is hiding in the cover / let him come forth.
Now in the cool of the day / it is we who walk in the trees / and call to God "Where art thou?" / And it is he who hides.
Why do you cry? / My heart is bitter. / Let God come forth to justify / himself now.
Why do you cry? / Is it Wehmut, ist dir weh? / Weep then, yea / for the abomination of our old righteousness,
We have done wrong / many times; / but this time we begin to do right.
Weep then, weep / for the abomination of our past righteousness. / God will keep / hidden, he won't come forth.