Uplifted is the stone <br />And all mankind arisen! <br />We are thy very own, <br />We are no more in prison! <br />What bitterest grief can stay <br />Beside thy golden cup, <br />When earth and life give way <br />And with our Lord we sup! <br /> <br />To the marriage Death doth call, <br />The lamps are burning clear, <br />The virgins, ready all, <br />Have for their oil no fear. <br />Would that even now were ringing <br />The distance with thy throng! <br />And that the stars were singing <br />To us a human song! <br /> <br />Courage! for life is hasting <br />To endless life away; <br />The inward fire, unwasting, <br />Transfigures our dull clay! <br />See the stars melting, sinking <br />In life-wine golden-bright! <br />We, of the splendour drinking, <br />Shall grow to stars of light. <br /> <br />Lost, lost are all our losses! <br />Love is for ever free! <br />The full life heaves and tosses <br />Like an unbounded sea! <br />One live, eternal story! <br />One poem high and broad! <br />And sun of all our glory <br />The countenance of God!<br /><br />George MacDonald<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/from-novalis/
