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How gently and quietly he smiles
how fondly he opens his eyes!
Do you see, friends?
Do you not see?
How he shines ever brighter
soaring on high, stars sparkling around him?
Do you not see
how his heart proudly swells
and, brave and full, pulses in his breast?
How softly and gently from his lips
sweet breath flutters
see, friends!
Do you not see and feel it?
Do I alone hear this melody
which, so wondrous and tender
in its blissful lament, all revealing,
gently pardoning, sounding from him
pierces me through, rises above,
blessedly echoing and ringing round me?
Resounding yet more clearly wafting about me,
are they waves of refreshing breezes?
Are they clouds of heavenly fragrance?
As they swell and roar around me
shall I breathe them, shall I listen to them?
Shall I sip them, plunge beneath them
to expire in sweet perfume?
In the surging swell, in the ringing sound
in the vast wave of the world's breath
to drown
to sink
unconscious
supreme bliss!