Liebestod

Mild and gentle
How he smiles
How the eye
Tenderly he opens
Do you see it, friends?
Do you not see it?
Ever brighter
How he shines
Star-encircled
Rising high
Do you not see it?
How his heart
Bravely swells
Full and noble
In his breast it wells?
How from his lips
Blissfully mild
Sweet breath
Gently wafts
Friends! See!
Do you not feel and see it?
Do I only hear this melody
So wonderfully and softly
Bliss lamenting
All revealing
Mildly reconciling
From him sounding
Into me penetrating
Rising up
Tenderly resounding
Around me ringing?
More brightly resounding
Enveloping me
Are they waves
Of gentle breezes?
Are they billows
Of delightful scents?
How they swell
Enveloping me
Should I breathe
Should I listen?
Should I sip
Submerge?
Sweet in scents
To vanish?
In the surging surge
In the resounding sound
In the world's breath wafting through all
To drown
To sink
Unconscious
Supreme bliss!