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To: Congressman Billybob; SAJ
Here's my adaptation:

Schadenfreude, schöner Götterfunken,
Tochter aus Elysium,
wir betreten feuertrunken,
Himmlische, dein Heiligtum!

20 posted on 02/09/2005 9:58:06 AM PST by Erasmus ("They caught my baby makin' booze, but you know I love her still.")
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To: Erasmus
Clever enough. The scansion in the first line is a bit off, though. Why not -- given the sentiment -- lose ''schöner''?

I'm pretty rusty, but it looks like that would both fix the scansion AND keep the sentiment; schöner is a trifle redundant at that point in any case, given what it's modifying, no?

25 posted on 02/09/2005 10:43:51 PM PST by SAJ
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