Wedding Prayer and Meditation

I decided and sworn not to go to you anymore, and I go every evening, because I lost all strength and every hold. I don't want to live anymore, want to perish now. And yet I would also like to live for you, with you, and never, ever die. Oh speak, speak only one word, one single, clear one. Give me life or death, only reveal to me your feeling, your true!

I never know how it happened, it was as if it had to be that you accepted my heart. It crept in so secretly. Just like flowers bloom silently. As in Lenz, the meadow turns green, as after a hot day glows gently and refreshingly the dew sinks. I am not assailed by a wild desire for a gluten-filled night of longing! As the moon came it went in the still summer night.

Wedding Celebration in Nidwalden

There was the God to whom we pray, the spring of the blossoms colorful tangle. He gave the planets to the suns, and he gave my soul to you. He gave bright ornament to the night-covered sea of the moonbeam. The golden ear of corn for the dark ground, and he gave me your love! All-powerful, all-crushing, the avalanche thunders down, a delicate, soft flake Was she in the beginning.

And the pain that shatters me, the dreadful destiny, was at first just a silent, hardly understood look. The fact that Marilla wants to give her love to someone else who doesn't hold a candle to you shouldn't offend you, oh Pious. I don't let myself be surprised that she made such a choice. Children take a round pebble for the bead. Venus presents herself as lovely, but don't be fooled. Your false candy will always end in gall.

Venus destroys honor and property, Venus weakens spirit and breast, gives remorse and pain in addition to hundredweight and despicable pleasure in plumbing.