Beloved, rejoice, let your spirit soar!
Spring has come—open wide your door!
All the fragrances, all the riot of hues,
Smear on your body, let rapture infuse!
Rise, sleep no more,
Let the wind lift your hair's dark shore!
Fortune stirs—seize it, make it yours,
Cast off that haughty, insolent gaze,
I beg you! Open your eyes—see how color blazes!
O beloved, paint me in your own flame!
This love that wakes today in my soul's name,
Whatever the cost, I'll pay with willing heart,
Pledge this youth as surety—just give love its part,
Don't turn away, take what you will in trade!
Let this spring wind carry all away,
I care not what the world might say!
Love is the strangest river—in its flow
To drown is death, yet death is how we grow!
Spring has awakened!
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