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Sannerz, ca. 1921
Night swallows what s old
when faith catches fire.
The will reawakes,
sparks leap ever higher.
What s withered burns up
and self-will dies.
Whom God claims as his,
in him faith will arise.
Faith s entered in
true conversion is here.
Now the will is pure
and active and clear.
God is this will,
and he gives from above
Over 2,500 visitors inundated Sannerz in 1921, and many of them sought
new life, where all
Eberhard s advice. Counseling the confused, encouraging the weary, and dif-
was dead, and new love.
fusing interpersonal tensions, he must have worn himself to the bone at
times. But as the poem The will is a power indicates, he never doubted that
Sannerz, ca. 1921
life s deepest questions could be answered by every person who truly
sought God s will.
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In fetters of need,
We believe. May deeds now follow,
in fetters of lust,
deeds that faith in you demands.
in fetters of fraud,
May the truth of your great vision
in fetters of war.
grip us, heart and head and hand.
The world is in chains,
Love accomplishes your will.
enslaved by greed
We rebel; your will remains.
and covered in muck
You chasten everyone you seek,
in fetters of need.
yet we resist your judgment s pain.
Bodies are shackled,
Deep in our hearts we long for you.
and women are thrust
We love you in death s sore distress.
into bondage entangled
We yearn to feel just as you feel.
in fetters of lust.
Where er you lead, we will say yes.
Under mountains of lies
We want to live for you alone.
our work is stalled
We want to do as you direct
by the weight of deceit,
in you, our selfish will to silence,
by the fetters of fraud.
whatever grieves you to reject.
The battle is stalled
What you require of us, you give!
in the grudges of yore,
All that you promise, you fulfill!
in decay and defeat
The radiance of your sun is love,
in the fetters of war.
and strength to live, your holy will.
Sannerz, ca. 1921
Fleestedt, 1921 or 1922
Tis true at last:
the Lord is mine.
Ruler of all,
I am now thine.
The Lord of light
Eberhard s frequent public speaking tours took him to Munich, Dresden,
art thou alone.
Frankfurt, Berlin, and other large cities, where he found a great longing for
I am nothing
something new, but also the unmistakable bondage to evil that he de-
scribes in the poem, In fetters of need. Note, in the last verse, an allusion
my life is thy own.
to the resentment that millions of Germans felt over their shameful defeat
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in 1918, and over the humiliating war compensations demanded by the Allies.
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Powers collapse, strength drains away. May peace awaken,
Thou, thou spirit of Christ,
Time breaks down. and earth be overtaken
whatever has been, I trust in thee.
Sight fails, the years race quickly by. by God s kingdom.
Thou, thou risen one,
World judgment sounds. And may all aching hearts
art ever here: I see thee.
freed from hatred s dread smart,
Masses die, whole peoples perish.
yet become brothers.
Thou, thou! What am I?
Day is gone.
Hear me, both friend or foe,
Whatever I ve been, I rest in thee!
Earth s ravaged, worlds are overturned.
I implore you to know
The horror s come.
Thou, thou power of the world,
and heed this watchword:
thou givest life: I give thee mine.
in Jesus purity,
Towers rock, walls crumble, fall.
there is our friendship
Brute force subsides.
Thou, thou rememberest those
and our unity.
Stars appear, and hearts give thanks.
who turned on thee. I love thee.
The kingdom s nigh!
Sannerz, 1922
Thou, thou coming one:
God s approach, Christ s coming,
thy kingdom comes. I wait for thee.
the age divine now here
Sannerz, 1922
is tangible as seers saw it:
as reality.
Sannerz, 1922
1922 began with growing tensions at Sannerz. By summer, things came Written after the painful Sannerz crisis, Thou, thou was set to music
to a head, and some forty members abandoned the household. Devastating two years later by Alexander Weichert, an old family friend. Eberhard s son
as this crisis was, Eberhard refused to engage in mud-slinging or concede Heinrich regarded it as one of his father s deepest poems and said that, along [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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Sannerz, ca. 1921
Night swallows what s old
when faith catches fire.
The will reawakes,
sparks leap ever higher.
What s withered burns up
and self-will dies.
Whom God claims as his,
in him faith will arise.
Faith s entered in
true conversion is here.
Now the will is pure
and active and clear.
God is this will,
and he gives from above
Over 2,500 visitors inundated Sannerz in 1921, and many of them sought
new life, where all
Eberhard s advice. Counseling the confused, encouraging the weary, and dif-
was dead, and new love.
fusing interpersonal tensions, he must have worn himself to the bone at
times. But as the poem The will is a power indicates, he never doubted that
Sannerz, ca. 1921
life s deepest questions could be answered by every person who truly
sought God s will.
P O E M S & R H Y M E D P R A Y E R S : E B E R H A R D A R N O L D WWW. EB E R HAR DA R NOL D. COM
46
In fetters of need,
We believe. May deeds now follow,
in fetters of lust,
deeds that faith in you demands.
in fetters of fraud,
May the truth of your great vision
in fetters of war.
grip us, heart and head and hand.
The world is in chains,
Love accomplishes your will.
enslaved by greed
We rebel; your will remains.
and covered in muck
You chasten everyone you seek,
in fetters of need.
yet we resist your judgment s pain.
Bodies are shackled,
Deep in our hearts we long for you.
and women are thrust
We love you in death s sore distress.
into bondage entangled
We yearn to feel just as you feel.
in fetters of lust.
Where er you lead, we will say yes.
Under mountains of lies
We want to live for you alone.
our work is stalled
We want to do as you direct
by the weight of deceit,
in you, our selfish will to silence,
by the fetters of fraud.
whatever grieves you to reject.
The battle is stalled
What you require of us, you give!
in the grudges of yore,
All that you promise, you fulfill!
in decay and defeat
The radiance of your sun is love,
in the fetters of war.
and strength to live, your holy will.
Sannerz, ca. 1921
Fleestedt, 1921 or 1922
Tis true at last:
the Lord is mine.
Ruler of all,
I am now thine.
The Lord of light
Eberhard s frequent public speaking tours took him to Munich, Dresden,
art thou alone.
Frankfurt, Berlin, and other large cities, where he found a great longing for
I am nothing
something new, but also the unmistakable bondage to evil that he de-
scribes in the poem, In fetters of need. Note, in the last verse, an allusion
my life is thy own.
to the resentment that millions of Germans felt over their shameful defeat
Sannerz, 1921 22
in 1918, and over the humiliating war compensations demanded by the Allies.
P O E M S & R H Y M E D P R A Y E R S : E B E R H A R D A R N O L D WWW. EB E R HAR DA R NOL D. COM
47
Powers collapse, strength drains away. May peace awaken,
Thou, thou spirit of Christ,
Time breaks down. and earth be overtaken
whatever has been, I trust in thee.
Sight fails, the years race quickly by. by God s kingdom.
Thou, thou risen one,
World judgment sounds. And may all aching hearts
art ever here: I see thee.
freed from hatred s dread smart,
Masses die, whole peoples perish.
yet become brothers.
Thou, thou! What am I?
Day is gone.
Hear me, both friend or foe,
Whatever I ve been, I rest in thee!
Earth s ravaged, worlds are overturned.
I implore you to know
The horror s come.
Thou, thou power of the world,
and heed this watchword:
thou givest life: I give thee mine.
in Jesus purity,
Towers rock, walls crumble, fall.
there is our friendship
Brute force subsides.
Thou, thou rememberest those
and our unity.
Stars appear, and hearts give thanks.
who turned on thee. I love thee.
The kingdom s nigh!
Sannerz, 1922
Thou, thou coming one:
God s approach, Christ s coming,
thy kingdom comes. I wait for thee.
the age divine now here
Sannerz, 1922
is tangible as seers saw it:
as reality.
Sannerz, 1922
1922 began with growing tensions at Sannerz. By summer, things came Written after the painful Sannerz crisis, Thou, thou was set to music
to a head, and some forty members abandoned the household. Devastating two years later by Alexander Weichert, an old family friend. Eberhard s son
as this crisis was, Eberhard refused to engage in mud-slinging or concede Heinrich regarded it as one of his father s deepest poems and said that, along [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]