Wedding Prayers and Meditation

Love inhibits nothing; she knows neither door nor bolt. And penetrates through everything itself. She is without beginning, forever beating her wings, and beating them forever. I feel as if a torrent of glowing floods of lava erupted from my heart. Oh, if you only knew how the deepest wounds so often bleed behind jokes.

When I parted from you with laughter, it was atomized like the yellow of a blossom, and the wild song that stunned your cheerfulness sounded wilder. The wild song went on and on, and none of that laughter remained. Until I found the mild word. You once said: »I love you!«

Christian Wedding without Church

O ringing spring, you blissful time! And when you're gone, we're not sorry, we loved each other yesterday, we loved each other today. We love each other tomorrow, we happy people! Once we lads fetched the birch full of courage and went to the village with the Maien on our guard. Then the girls stepped out of every house, how you laughed, sweetheart, furtively! The feast was over, so you gave at the hour. My hand to squeeze, my mouth to kiss.

You were mine, o darling, and, o darling, I was yours. We wanted to be connected forever. And see, it wasn't for nothing that the rose stood on the heath. I brought you the bouquet, you lovely maiden. Shared the dance and song at harvest. We cut the grapes and didn't get tired of it. Now winter is storming so cold through the world, we can't cheer through mountains and fields, we're sitting at home, one heart and one mind. In the heart is summer, love blooms in it.

O ringing spring, you blissful time! And if you return, we are both united forever. We loved each other yesterday, we love each other today, we love each other tomorrow, we happy people!