Die Knochenblume
Sopor Aeternus
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My lover sleeps! Oh, may his sleep,
Which is enduring, so be deep!
Heaven have him in its sacred keep!
This chamber changed for one more holy,
This bed for one more melacholy,
I pray to Saturn that he may lie
For ever with unopened eye,
While the pale sheeted ghosts go by!
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