IT IS GOOD

by: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

N Paradise while moonbeams played,

Jehovah found, in slumber deep,

Adam fast sunk; He gently laid

Eve near him -- she, too, fell asleep.

There lay they now, on earth's fair shrine,

God's two most beauteous thoughts divine--

When this He saw, He cried: 'Tis good!

And scarce could move from where He stood.

 

No wonder, that our joy's complete

While eye and eye responsive meet,

When this blest thought of rapture moves us--

That we're with Him who truly loves us,

And if He cries -- Good, let it be!

'Tis so for both, it seems to me.

Thou'rt clasped within these arms of mine,

Dearest of all God's thoughts divine!

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