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English version by
George MacDonald

Original Language
German

The youth thou art who ages long hast stood

Themes

Death

Honey

Recommended Books

	Hymns to the Night, by Novalis
	Hymns to the Night: Spiritual Songs, by Novalis / Translated by George MacDonald
	News of the Universe: Poems of Twofold Consciousness, Edited by Robert Bly
	Novalis: Philosophical Writings, Translated by Margaret Mahony Stoljar
	The Novices of Sais, by Novalis / Translated by Ralph Manheim

The youth thou art who ages long hast stood
Upon our graves, so deeply lost in thought;
A sign of comfort in the dusky gloom
For high humanity, a joyful start.
What dropped us all into abyssmal woe,
Pulls us forward with sweet yearning now.
In everlasting life death found its goal,
For thou art Death who at last makes us whole.

1800

-- from Hymns to the Night: Spiritual Songs, by Novalis / Translated by George MacDonald

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