Meditation and Wedding Prayer

Hand in hand! and lip on lip! Dear girl, stay true! Farewell! and your loved one still drives past some cliffs. But when he greets the harbor again after the storm, may the gods punish him if he enjoys it without you. Fresh daring is already won, my work is half done! Stars shine like suns on me, only the coward is night.

If I were idle at your side, grief would still oppress me. But in all this vastness I work quickly and only for you. I've already found the valley where we'll walk together one day and see the river gently gliding down in the evening hours. Those poplars in the meadows, those beeches in the grove! Oh, and behind all these there will be a little hut.

Your Wedding in Barcelona - Spain

You, my star, which wakes up happily in the morning with my first greeting! You of my day's sorrow and toil, which laughs brightly in my struggle! My pole of hope in the evening dance, when passion swells calmed! My dream, my saying and my silence, you dearly loved image of man! You may be basking blissfully in the blossom of your existence, but you don't understand the stirrings that go through your soul.

Unbelievable to me, painful to go. An ancestor tells you with fear the strange glow that you kindle, you pass by half self-conscious. And exercise all your power! You come and go, so my hope comes, so my defiance drives it to flight. So my being feels struck by impatience and jealousy. You approach my circles with a smile. Who believes how soon a heart forgets? I am spellbound by magic and must love you as you are!