Adaptation of the text of "Requiem", by Peter Cornelius

REQUIEM

Soul, O, forget them not,
soul, O, forget them not,
never forget the departed!

See they are hovering near to the living,
and in the heavenly radiance,
that the glow of our love imparts,
breathe they again and rewarm them,
and enjoy for a final time their low flickering being.

Soul, O, forget them not,
soul, O, forget them not,
never forget the departed!

And when thou forgettest to heed them,
then they shrink benumbered
to their innermost being.

They are caught in the storm of night,
which they together resist
with the strength of the love we give them.

It pursues them with violence
through the endless and darkened waste,
there where nothing exists,
save wild whiring forces of chaos,
only these and no more.

Soul, O, forget them not,
soul, O, forget them not,
never forget the departed!