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Concord Consecrates

    Long shall these walls
    Be witness to our work,
    And, that it may endure forever,
    Concord consecrates them today.

    Let us share every burden
    With the full weight of love,
    Then we shall worthily receive here
    True light from the east.

    To attain this benefit
    Begin the work joyfully,
    And he, too, who has begun already,
    Let him begin afresh today.
    If we have completely attuned
    Our hearts and words
    To virtue in this place
    Oh, then envy is silenced,
    And the wish that crowns our hope
    Completely fulfilled.

    — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart