C.D. Warner, et al., comp. The Library of the World’s Best Literature.
An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.
Call to Joy
By Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Hölty (1748–1776)
Translation of Charles Timothy Brooks
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So long as youth and springtime bloom!
Why, when life’s morning sun is shining,
Why should the brow be clothed in gloom?
As through life’s pilgrimage we roam;
With wreaths of flowers they come to meet us
And lead us onward to our home.
As when it danced to Eden’s breeze;
The lovely moon still beams as brightly
As when she shone through Adam’s trees.