“Welcome, all ye myriad creatures!
Brethren, take the kiss of love!”

—  Friedrich Schiller , Ode to Joy

Chorus 1
An die Freude (Ode to Joy; or Hymn to Joy) (1785)

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German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright 1759–1805

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