Note 799 — Chapter VIII · THE SACRIFICE
Beatrice M. Hinkle translation
Like the heavenly city in Hauptmann’s “Hannele”:
“Salvation is a wonderful city,
Where peace and joy never end,
Its houses are marble, its roofs are gold,
But wine flows in silver fountains,
Flowers are strewed upon the white, white streets,
Continually from the towers sound the wedding bells.
Green as May are the battlements, shining with the light of early morning.
Giddy with butterflies, crowned with roses.
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There below, hand in hand,
The festive people wander through the heavenly land,
The wide, wide sea is filled with red, red wine,
They plunge in with shining bodies!
They plunge into the foam and the splendor,
The clear purple covers them entirely,
And they exulting arise from the flood,
Thus they are washed by Jesus’ blood.”