Meditation and Wedding Prayer

She said "Sie" instead of the empty one. "You" trusted me by mistake and already the imagination promises that my pleading for love will be answered! I look at her blissfully. Eager for each of their looks. I speak aloud: "How cute are you!" And think silently: "How I love you!"

When I jumped into the light of the sun, my life's zigzag course was already indestructible. Now I'm hopping down the avenues and really quietly beginning to love this zigzag, but this last zigzag and crippled love song is already prescribed.

Your Wedding in the Bernese Oberland

I'm so quiet, darling, and we're always silent. You are a slender lute, spring plays on you. That's why I'm so quiet, you grace, because I'm often afraid that I'll lose a sound from your dear song. I want to give you a love that will make you my confidant. From my day a memory of you and a dream from my night. I wish that we would find each other happy and that you would then, like a jewel, loosen the tenderness I never wanted from my tired hands. The young hero, Dietrich von Bern, liked noble sayings and riddles.

Then old Hildebrand, well known to his wise master, spoke in the evening at the Herdesruh. Once also this to him: "Who is full of joy and virtue; Wills with a clear heart what he should? Who is very gloomy, rigid and barren. Joyless, like a locked coffin? Who yearns for heaven with grace, puts the course of life after the Christian?

Who sinks into earthly lust and need, forgets all divine commandments? Now guess who can guess! It's all one man." Dieterich said, blushing: "Oh dear master, that's me!" "Yes, said the master seriously. But it is also all human."