Meditation and Wedding Prayer

But love, first learned in women's eyes, does not live alone, walled up in the brain. No, with the agitation of all noble minds, it streams through every power at the speed of thought. And gives every power double power, far higher than their work and their office. It lends the finest sharpness to the face. Who loves, the eye sees the eagle blindly!

Who loves, the ear hears the faintest sound. Dear name, which I never name, which I silently confess only to myself. Sometimes in the streets, squares, because of me, your sound comes from a stranger's mouth. Sometimes you jump up from lines in a book and invite me to linger. But I'm always afraid, shyly affected, and it seems to me my heart is open to everyone.

Non-Religious Wedding

The mind can indeed repeat what has already happened. What nature builds, he builds after her by choice. Reason builds beyond nature, but only in the void, only you, Genius, increase nature in nature. Love blossom of nature, most beautiful flower of this corridor! Where I look for your trace, I only find my tears. I only find my tears and the sadness of nature, that the flower of this field has gone away without a trace.

Gone without a trace! After you there remains only my sigh, and a shudder of nature, Making autumn on summer corridor. Make every trace of death visible, o autumn, on summer meadows! For only the flower of nature is an adornment of death. Nature's Love Blossom! Only tears are your tracks on the floor.