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Thy sweet magic brings together
What stern Custom spreads afar;
All men become brothers
Where thy happy wing-beats are.

— Friedrich Schiller

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Source: An die Freude (Ode to Joy; or Hymn to Joy) (1785), Stanza 1; this poem is most famous as providing the inspiration for Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, and the lyrics to the choral portion of that work.
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No cause has he to say his doom is harsh,
Who's made the master of his destiny.

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But men, as man, thy brothers call;
And scatter, like the circling sun,
Thy charities on all.

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