Wedding Prayer and Meditation

They sat and drank at the tea table and talked a lot about love. The gentlemen were aesthetic, the ladies of tender feeling. "Love must be platonic," said the skinny councilor. The privy councilor smiles ironically, and yet she sighs: "Oh!" The canon opens his mouth wide: "Love shouldn't be too raw, otherwise it damages your health." The young lady lisps: "Why?" The Countess speaks wistfully: " Love is a passion!' And kindly presents the cup to the Baron. There was still a little place at the table, a darling, you were missing. You would have spoken so beautifully, my darling, of your love.

Wedding Celebration in Obwalden

My heart is torn, you don't love me! You let me know you don't love me! Although I appeared to you begging and wooing, and eager to love, you do not love me! You said it, said it with words, with all too knowing, you don't love me! So should I miss the stars, so should I miss the moon, the sun? You do not love me! Why is the rose blooming for me, why is the jasmine blooming? What are the daffodils blooming for?

You do not love me! Heart, o let your pounding, you haven't done anything wrong, don't strive for happiness! Learn to forget what you once possessed never returns. Love, faithfulness, peace, do not search here below, you only search in vain! Life gives only lamentation, sorrow to endure, only in the grave is rest. Should I love him, should I leave him to whom my heart has secretly given itself? Should I train myself to hate him rightly, advise me well, but advise not against. Of course he's wild, hasty with manners, no one understands how much I love him.

But he can also ask so saintly, advise me well, but don't advise against it. I could have richer, wiser ones, a safe staff is good in life. Didn't begrudge the wild boy to anyone. Advise me well, but advise not against. If I let myself be beguiled by a bad choice, it would be better if I lay myself in my grave at once. It is always wise to listen to advice. Advise me well, but advise not against.