Prayer and Meditation

My songs quietly plead to you through the night. Down into the silent grove, darling, come to me! Whispering slender treetops rustle in the moonlight, Don't fear the traitor's hostile eavesdropping, lovely one! Do you hear the nightingales beat? Ah, they beg you, with their sweet lamentations plead for me They understand the yearning of the bosom, know the pain of love, Stir every soft heart with the silver tones.

Let your breasts move too, darling hear me, trembling I await you! Come make me happy! make me happy I want from you what no time destroys, I want from you what no time destroys. Only beauty bestowed by the heart. I want from you what never belongs to the world, pure angelic childlikeness. These are the very best gifts of the heart, this is life's most beautiful ornament. If the world has you, I can't have you, if you live for the world, you die for me.

Conservative Wedding

Deep down, a sweet memory and a greeting at the end of the day. May God's goodness guard my happiness, that his faithfulness be always with you. May your soul marry me forever. I pray. I only count on him, I piously commend both of us to his power. Well, good night! Who once brought his young sunny love. She told him to go, no further thought. Then he brought home a girl, quiet and sweet. She only wanted him out of all people. And if his heart never trembles in love for her.

She suffered for him and lived only for him. Ha, how is my whole soul now rowing in the sensation of the ocean? Loud sighs burst my throat, which can be heard ten miles away. Like cannonballs, tears roll out of my two eyes. Earth and sky tremble at my moans, and I roar, sobbing - like a bull. Storms of sensation drive me east, west, and south, and north. My soul has no rest in me, and my heart flashes and thunders. Ah, I must, I must sink in the storm! Save me, generous soul, yes! I'm already beginning to drink death, see, my boat of life has a hole!