Fire Wedding – 38 years – your phoenix wedding – In your soul, clear life there, my true happiness rests alone!

Meditation and Wedding Prayer

In this early winter, what a mood I feel! O dawn, I glow before your youthful blood. The old cliffs and forest and castle especially glow, intoxicated mists roll abruptly down into the valley. Heart and mind rise with active haste and wing golden arrows through all distances.

Ah well! what sings out of me is only the happiness of love, she gently wraps the confused tones back into herself. Once, once you only love. Loving twice is in vain. Once, once you only love. But then, triumph of life! Oh! a sky full of giving, full of taking follows the oath! Once, once you only love. Loving twice is in vain!

Fire Wedding

How is reality so sober! How dry and dusty! Only rarely, and alas, so shyly does enthusiasm lift its head. Fire, fire in the throat! Fire, fire in the soul, so that the noble steel of the soul sprays red sparks again! My true happiness rests alone in your soul's clear life. Distance can give me joy, only with you can I be happy. In the rapid flights of your spirit the difficult life bears itself easily. The other can probably suffice for me.

You alone satisfy me! A power that lifts me flows from the deep sources of your love. On whose light-fringed waves my ship of life floats by! I love you, can you measure it, understand the word, so sweet and sweet? It encloses a world of bliss, it contains a whole paradise. I love you, that's what I hear when I wake up to new life in the morning. And when a thousand stars twinkle in the evening, I love you, that's how the night sounds.

You are far from me, I don't want to complain about it, cherish you in the sacred shrine of my heart. Keep ringing, my song! Cheer up, happy soul! I love you and it will never be otherwise.