Glarus – Funeral Service – Funeral on the Mountain – My shadow shall not be disturbed by the tears when it breaks out of the coffin!

Meditation and Prayer

When you bend at the hem of the sky, summer defoliated. We stay behind, we open our eyes, we see Your eternal image. Now you know everything, tears and hope, the world of suffering, the world of happiness. Redeemed soul, beloved soul, our sister, Home is here! How dark are your temples. and your hands so heavy You're already far away and you don't hear me anymore.

Under the flickering light you are so sad and old, and your lips are cruelly clawed in eternal rigidity. Tomorrow there will be silence here and perhaps the rustling of wreaths and a decaying scent will still be in the air. But the nights will Empty now, year after year. Here where your head lay and your breath was always quiet.

Funeral Service - Glarus - Funeral on the Mountain

When I die one day, they will say this and that, but you alone know what my heart is beating for here. After all, let them chatter about the buried heart, Dumb as I am in the grave, be dumb in your pain. My shadow shall not be disturbed by the tears of your eyes when it breaks out of the coffin, hovering towards you in its yearning. Because as long as you live here, I can't leave the earth. Without you, I'm just telling you, I would hate heaven myself.

Until your heart is broken too, my spell here below won't be broken. Only then will I float heavenward with you in the peace of the stars. Welcome, o silver moon, beautiful silent vehicle of the night! you escape Don't hurry, stay, mind friend! Look, he stays, the clouds just rolled away. The awakening of May is only more beautiful than the summer night.

When dew, bright as light, drips from his curls and he comes up to the hill reddish. You noble ones, oh your marks are already growing serious moss! Oh, how happy I was when I was still with you, seeing the day redden and the night shimmer.