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Soul of sorrow, why this weeping?

What immortal grief hath touched thee

With the poignancy of sadness—

Testament of tears?

Have the high gods deigned to show thee 5

Destiny, and disillusion

Fills thy heart at all things human,

Fleeting and desired?

Nay, the gods themselves are fettered

By one law which links together 10

Truth and nobleness and beauty,

Man and stars and sea.

And they only shall find freedom

Who with courage rise and follow

Where love leads beyond all peril, 15

Wise beyond all words.