“Joy, in Nature's wide dominion,
Mightiest cause of all is found;
And 'tis joy that moves the pinion,
When the wheel of time goes round”

—  Friedrich Schiller , Ode to Joy

Stanza 4
An die Freude (Ode to Joy; or Hymn to Joy) (1785)

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