If my wickedness be a laughing wickedness, at home among rose-banks and hedges of lilies:
-or in laughter is all evil present, but it is sanctified and absolved by its own bliss:-
And if it be my Alpha and Omega that everything heavy shall become light, everybody a dancer, and every spirit a bird: and verily, that is my Alpha and Omega!-
Oh, how could I not be ardent for Eternity, and for the marriage-ring of rings- the ring of the return?
Never yet have I found the woman by whom I should like to have children, unless it be this woman whom I love: for I love you, O Eternity!
For I love you, O Eternity!
7.
If ever I have spread out a tranquil heaven above me, and have flown into my own heaven with my own pinions:
If I have swum playfully in profound luminous distances, and if my freedom's avian wisdom has come to me:-
-Thus however speaks avian wisdom:- "Lo, there is no above and no below! Throw yourself about,- outward, backward, you light one! Sing! speak no more!
-Are not all words made for the heavy? Do not all words lie to the light ones? Sing! speak no more!"-
Oh, how could I not be ardent for Eternity, and for the marriage-ring of rings- the ring of the return?
Never yet have I found the woman by whom I should like to have children, unless it be this woman whom I love: for I love you, O Eternity!
For I love you, O Eternity!
