<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Ode To Joy</span><div><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Joy! A spark of fire from heaven, </span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Daughter from Elysium,</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Drunk with fire we dare to enter, </span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Holy One, inside your shrine. </span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Your magic power binds together, </span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">What we by custom wrench apart, </span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">All men will emerge as brothers, </span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Where you rest your gentle wings.</span></div><div><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">If you’ve mastered that great challenge: </span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Giving friendship to a friend,</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">If you’ve earned as steadfast woman, </span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Celebrate your joy with us!</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Join if in the whole wide world there’s </span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Just one soul to call your own!</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">He who’s failed must steal away, </span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Shedding tears as he departs.</span></div><div><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">All creation drinks with pleasure, </span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Drinks at Mother Nature’s breast;</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">All the just, and all the evil,</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Follow down her rosy path.</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Kisses she bestowed, and grape wine, </span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Friendship true, proved e’en in death; </span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Every worm knows nature’s pleasure, </span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Every cherub meets his God.</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Gladly, like the planets flying </span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">True to heaven’s mighty plan, </span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Brothers, run your course now, </span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Happy as a knight in victory.</span></div><div><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Be embracéd, all you millions,</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Share this kiss with all the world!</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Way above the stars, brothers,</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">There must live a loving father.</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Do you kneel down low, you millions? </span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Do you see your maker, world? </span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Search for Him above the stars,</span><br><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Above the stars He must be living. </span><div><span style="white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br></span><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Friedrich Schiller</span></div></div></div></div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr"><!-- signature open --><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>"Be joyful though you have considered all the facts."<div> - Wendell Berry</div><!-- signature close --></div></div></body></html>