And another great poet writes for the album,
Und musst du denn, trotz Kraft und Mut
If, spite of strength and courage good,
The thorns your skin will tear,
See to it only that your blood
Does not the rose besmear.
Friedrich Hebbel
A historian too has his say:
Priests place themselves between men and the Deity only as shadows: as when the eye takes to its help a smoked glass, to see the sun through this dull medium.
Ferdinand Gregorovius