Funeral Oration for the Obsequies of Karl von Hund

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GEORG KLOSS

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to work as much as the strength of the high man can possibly achieve, to climb back up! Whoever misses work among us is a sluggard who shuns it and who wants to consume what others have sown—no, not even harvest, just consume. The true, the knowledge-seeking Freemason will never complain about a lack of activities; he will only complain about a lack of time and strength. Do not believe, my brothers, on the lower steps of the sanctuary, that this is an exaggerated, honest expression. No, I would have to blush before the brothers of my class if I could even consider myself justified in encouraging you through such hyperboles. I therefore turn to you, my brothers, who have already stepped up to the altar. Do you lack objects to work on? Alas, if only you do not lack strength! ---

... But --- he died the death of the wise man. May that inflame the soul to great thoughts! May that open up a field for new work for us here, at his grave! Not just looking down, mourning, into the lap of the tired-

Hail to us, with such sentiments! Then you do not frighten, grave! Neither do you, decay; nor you, conscience, even when you remind us of our faults. The holy religion of the Christian holds the banner of faith up to the trembling eye, and new, inexpressible courage streams even into the breaking heart!

From this holy of holies, we cannot step down with reverence onto any more worthy step than into the temple of sociability and friendship—this heaven on earth! And so it shall be! True brotherly love, faithful until the grave, faithful beyond these boundaries of mortality, has indeed gathered us here. Not only social joys are the reward of friendship! but also social tears! etc.

An address to His Royal Highness, Prince Frederick Adolph of Sweden, Duke of Ostgoth-

1803
Volume III.

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