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Sunday, 28 February 2016

There Is a House in Heaven - Spervogel

There is a house in heaven, they say;
You reach it by a golden way.
The pillars are of marble white;
The noblest jewels gleaming bright
The Lord has laid within.
No soul may enter there by right
That is not free from sin.
Spervogel (1150 – 1200) Germany
Translated by Margarete Münsterberg
Source: A Harvest of German Verse, Margarete Münsterberg, ed., trans. . New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1916
Posted by Bruce-the-Sheep at 18:38

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