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Margarete Münsterberg, ed., trans. A Harvest of German Verse. 1916.

By There Is a House in Heaven

Spervogel (1150–1200)

THERE is a house in heaven, they say;

You reach it by a golden way.

The pillars are of marble white;

The noblest jewels gleaming bright

The Lord has laid within.

No soul may enter there by right

That is not free from sin.