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Soul of sorrow, why this weeping? / What immortal grief hath touched thee / With the poignancy of sadness, -- / Testament of tears?
Have the high gods deigned to show thee / Destiny, and disillusion / Fills thy heart at all things human, / Fleeting and desired?
Nay, the gods themselves are fettered / By one law which links together / Truth and nobleness and beauty, / Man and stars and sea.
And they only shall find freedom / Who with courage rise and follow / Where love leads beyond all peril, / Wise beyond all words.