Meditation and Wedding Prayer

You judge severely, vehm sacred to custom. And hurl the anathem on my head! May you throw down your candles and beat your chest, so virtuous. I feel it mightily in the deepest heart that my sin is equal to your virtue. May the lilies of innocence bloom around you. The red of shame glows on your cheeks. Like swans swaying on still waters, feelings quietly draw through your soul.

How moths sway teasingly through the flowers, love's wishes flee quietly by! If a flaming yearning torments you unchained, you may renounce proudly and as big as your soul. May you quietly consume your hot youth, fight out the holy war knightly. And with the letter of authority of your virtue, death, hell take its victory! I still do not respect your virtue.

Boldly reject your holy judgment! Be the guardian of the law, the avenger of custom, the true genius of pious faith! A holy spirit also lives in the criminal. The free man sins because he must sin! Life also demands its mighty right.

Your Wedding in the Interlaken and Jungfraujoch Region

Abandon the dead servant of the rigid word. My sins flowed from noble fire, from the urge of the heart, from glowing passion. I would already find forgiveness for them here, the witnesses of my value, my strength. Renunciation is the nun's pride and glory, happiness is the woman's sanctuary. You want to laboriously fathom eternity, she smiles at me from every moment.

You want to find happiness in your virtue, I only find my virtue in happiness. When the flames of love spray hot around me, I want to burn up in blissful fiery death. But from the glow I rise reborn, like the phoenix swings from the ashes, my nature was purified - not lost, rejuvenated to new, holy love happiness.