Song II (Continued) pg. 23

God, who in [His] grace established the power

And lovingly if thunderously[1] rules

            Seeing that virtue falls

            Creates love for it, as aid

            And heals even those wounds

            That friendship gives us

Fate III

To suffer eternally and shed tears

Drive out happinesses from the watery shadows

Oh, I will never catch up with them

That’s my fate

            To love the angel of goodness

            [My] eyes having recognized the illusion

            That no one could unite us

            That’s my fate

To beseech God for salvation[2]

You see[3] an enemy in every person

And to take on similar suffering

That’s my fate

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[1] Literally “with a thunderbolt”

[2] Literally “rescue”

[3] Sic for “To see”