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Goethe and Schiller’s Xenions

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Ritual

“How these assiduous clerics
  are ringing their bells to the people
Only to cause them to come
  vain repetitions to make!”

Do not find fault with the clergy;
  they know the demands of the people:
Vain repetitions, observe!
  always will gladden man’s heart.

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