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Beethoven- Elegischer Gesang (Elegiac Song)

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Sanft, wie du lebtest,
hast du vollendet,
zu heilig für den Schmerz!
Kein Auge wein' ob
des himmlischen Geistes Heimkehr.		 Softly, as you lived
You have reached your end,
Too holy for pain!
No eye should weep over
The return home of a heavenly spirit.

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