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Amor Vincit Omnia
Under the gallery stairs of Svartsjö church
there is a lumber-room filled with grave-diggers’
worn-out spades, with broken benches, with
discarded tin numerals, and other rubbish.
In there, where the dust lies thick as if to hide it
from human eyes,stands a casket inlaid with
mother-of-pearl, in the most perfect mosaic. If one scrapes
the dust away, it shines and glitters like a mountain
wall in a fairy-tale. The casket is locked, and the key
is in safe keeping. No mortal may peep into it, and
no one knows what it holds. Not until the end of
the century may the key be inserted, the cover lifted,
and the treasures it contains be seen by man. So has
he who owned the casket decreed.
On the brass plate on the cover is inscribed:
Labor vincit omnia; but Amor vincit omnia would have
been a more appropriate inscription, for the casket
in the lumber-room is a testimony to the potency
of love.
O Eros, all-conquering god!
Thou, O Love, art eternal! Old are the peoples
of Earth, but thou hast followed them throughout
the ages.
Where are the gods of the East, the mighty
heroes whose weapons were thunderbolts—they who
on the shoresofsacred rivers took offerings of honey
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