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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Trilogy Of Passion 03 Atonement
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PASSION brings reason—who can pacify

An anguish`d heart whose loss hath been so great?
Where are the hours that fled so swiftly by?

In vain the fairest thou didst gain from fate;
Sad is the soul, confused the enterprise;

The glorious world, how on the sense it dies!

In million tones entwined for evermore,

Music with angel-pinions hovers there,
To pierce man`s being to its inmost core,

Eternal beauty has its fruit to bear;
The eye grows moist, in yearnings blest reveres
The godlike worth of music as of tears.

And so the lighten`d heart soon learns to see

That it still lives, and beats, and ought to beat,
Off`ring itself with joy and willingly,

In grateful payment for a gift so sweet.
And then was felt,—oh may it constant prove!—
The twofold bliss of music and of love.
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