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Wie Gott dich liebt, du weißt es nur, Wenn du ein Lieb gefunden, Das treulich wie beim ersten Schwur Dich liebet alle Stunden, Und dich allein auf weiter Welt In's tiefste Herz geschlossen hält. O sieh! wie wird ein heiß Gebet Schon ihres Odems Wehen! O sieh! wie jeder Blick erfleht Dein Heil und Wohlergehen, Wie Blick und Kuß, Gedank' und Wort An dich nur sinnen fort und fort! Seit mir solch Herz geschenket war, Da lernt' ich erst es fassen, Wie Gott so hoch und wunderbar Mag lieben ohne Maßen, Und knüpft, seit ich die Liebste fand, An ihn mich auch ein ewges Band.
Confirmed with Liederbuch von Friedrich Oser, 1842-1874. Mit einem biographischen Verzeichnis der Componisten, Basel: Benno Schwabe, Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1875, pages 221-222.
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You only know how God loves you When you yourself have found a love, Who, as faithful as [she was] at her first vow, Loves you at every hour, And holds you alone in the wide world Locked into the deepest depths of her heart. Oh see! how even wafting of her breath Becomes a fervent prayer! Oh see! how every glance pleads For your salvation and well-being, How glance and kiss, thought and word Only think of you ever and ever! Since such a heart was bestowed upon me, I first learned to grasp How God, so high and wondrous, May love without measure, And how, since I found my love, I am tied as well to Him by an eternal bond.
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