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O unbewölktes Leben! So rein und tief und klar. Uralte Träume schweben Auf Blumen wunderbar. Der Geist zerbrach die Schranken, Des Körpers träges Bley; Er waltet groß und frey. Es laben die Gedanken An Edens Früchten sich; Der alte Fluch entwich. Was ich auch je gelitten, Die Palme ist erstritten, Gestillet mein Verlangen. Die Musen selber sangen Die Sphinx in Todesschlaf, Und meine Hand - sie traf. O unbewölktes Leben! So rein und tief und klar. Uralte Träume schweben Auf Blumen wunderbar.
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O unclouded life! So pure and profound and clear. Ancient dreams float wonderfully out of the flowers. The spirit has broken the chains of the body's sluggish lead; it reigns, great and free. Thoughts are refreshed by the fruits of Eden; the old curse is ended. Whatever I may have suffered, contending for the Palm, stilled is my yearning. The Muses themselves have sung the Sphinx into the sleep of death, and my hand actually struck the blow. O unclouded life! So pure and profound and clear. Ancient dreams float wonderfully out of the flowers.
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