Thus do I work with true creative joy

To build the worlds. Without me none can live,

And naught without my strength can e’er exist.

Johannes:

So thou dost stand before my spirit’s eye,

Joy-giver of all worlds. My spirit’s strength

Doth feel creative joy, when I behold

Thee as the fruit of self-experience.

Within the temple to my spirit’s eye

Once didst thou show thyself, yet at that time