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Hide and seek

Language: English

Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. 
I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.

Thou ever pourest for me the fresh draught of thy wine 
of various colours and fragrance, 
filling this earthen vessel to the brim.

My world will light its hundred different lamps 
with thy flame and place them before the altar of thy temple.

No, I will never shut the doors of my senses. 
The delights of sight and hearing and touch will bear thy delight.

Yes, all my illusions will burn into illumination of joy, 
and all my desires ripen into fruits of love.


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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

Date added to the website: 2008-08-24.

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