A song that could have been sung by the villagers to the returning Naomi, but that it is in German!

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Warum kann ich nie?

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All kings and all their favourites
All glory of honours beauty and wits
The sun itself which makes time as they pass
Is elder by a year now than it was
When thou and I first one another saw
All other things to their destruction draw
Only our love hath no decay
This no tomorrow hath, no yesterday
Running it never ran from us away
But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day.

And then we shall be throughly blest ;
But now no more than all the rest.
Here upon earth we’re kings, and none but we
Can be such kings, nor of such subjects be.
Who is so safe as we? where none can do
Treason to us, except one of us two.
True and false fears let us refrain,
Let us love nobly, and live, and add again
Years and years unto years, till we attain
To write threescore; this is the second of our reign.

Two graves must hide thine and my corse ;
If one might, death were no divorce.
Alas ! as well as other princes, we
Who prince enough in one another be
Must leave at last in death these eyes and ears,
Oft fed with true oaths, and with sweet salt tears ;
But souls where nothing dwells but love
All other thoughts being inmates then shall prove
This or a love increasèd there above,
When bodies to their graves, souls from their graves remove.

John Donne (1572 – 31 March 1631)
Modified slightly for the song:
Is elder by some years now than it was
To write threescore; this is the silver of our reign.

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Wie kamst du Lieb haben?

Wie kamst du Lieb’ für mich haben,
Wenn ich so unlieblich bin?
Hast du mit Gott gesprochen?
Veränderte er deinen Sinn?

Ich kann es nie verstehen
Wie du mich Liebe kannst,
Aber muss ich es glauben
Na, du gibst mir dein Best

Nun lobe ich den Herren
Der regiert im Himmelhoch
Weil er mich hat gelieben
Bishin zum schweren Todesjoch

Er hat uns’re Sünden getragen
Wie das Feierlichpassalamm.
So lasset uns nun dienen
Dem himmlischen, herrlichen Bräutigam.

^{_{© 2003 Stuart Moffatt}}

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Wo bist du gewesen?

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Siebenmal: cries of conflict

Siebenmal hab’ ich vergessen trotz alles deines Gesetz.
Irdischen Gedanken haben mich gegossen.
Ruf’ ich an den Namen meines Herrn.
Ruf’ ich an den Namen meines Herrn.

Lassest mich vor dir kommen in deinem göttlichem Barmherzigkeit:
Na, ich komme nur wie ein Sünder, Gnädisch Gott, erbarme dich mein.

Ach, ich falle im Finsternis, nehm’st mich auf in deinem Licht.
Nichts kann dich widerstreben Ehre Herr, errettest du mich.

Jetzt bin ich ein Ehebrecher umgekerht von Weibes Lieb
Desto um ein’ Jungfrau, ein’ Jungfrau zu nehmen?
Ich habe nicht es zu widersteh’n!
Taum’ ich, es ist unveränderlich! Hilf’ mir, Herr, ich kann nicht steh’n!

Siebenmal hab’ ich vergessen trotz alles deines Gesetz.
Irdischen Gedanken haben mich gegossen.
Ruf’ ich an den Namen meines Herrn.

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In vain: words of conflict

In vain he fought: the lion’s head crushed his heart to leave him dead
His efforts failed, all strength was spent, like wounded prey, his soul was rent.
In vain he tried to d’stroy the worm ev’ry sinew stretched, ev’ry muscle firm,
But nought availed, no progress made each move made it did evade.

Daring all might then to defy in danger’s face, set to fly,
Careless, in hope to be set free he cried aloud, it cannot be!
Such words he spoke as he could feel to’all around with greatest zeal
Inspired at last to heavenly thought renewed to fight, so he fought.

Lion’s head in a mane of flame, insidious worm upon him came,
Night passed by day he could not stand gone all hope from his right hand.

Just as he fell a word did come under the emblem of God’s Son:
Do not fear the worm by night I destroyed it by my might.
The lion’s snare itself did catch have I not closed then the latch?

An answer then to all his woes now went forth against his foes.
No stand they made but fled outright eternal grace had won the fight.
An answer found in Sharon’s Rose now that God’s Son did interpose
New strength he gives to him by grace each day to live, new life embrace.

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