Der GOttverliebte Mensch hat sonsten keine Pein
Als daß er nicht kan bald bey GOtt dem Liebsten seyn.

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Mendelssohn uses modern spelling: bey -> bei ; seyn -> sein

Text Authorship:

• by Johannes Scheffler (1624 - 1677), as Angelus Silesius, no title, appears in Cherubinischen Wandersmann, Kapitel 14 , Vers 125 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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• by Arnold Mendelssohn (1855 - 1933), "Der Mensch ist eine Kohle", published 1900 [ SATB chorus ], from Sechs vierstimmige Chorsätze für S., A., T. und B., no. 4, Leipzig, Rieter-Biedermann ; English title for whole setting is "The human is a coal"
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