O glad, exulting, culminating song! A vigor more than earth’s is in thy notes, Marches of victory⁠—man disenthral’d⁠—the conqueror at last, Hymns to the universal God from universal man⁠—all joy! A reborn race appears⁠—a perfect world, all joy! Women and men in wisdom innocence and health⁠—all joy! Riotous laughing bacchanals fill’d with joy! War, sorrow, suffering gone⁠—the rank earth purged⁠—nothing but joy left! The ocean fill’d with joy⁠—the atmosphere all joy! Joy! joy! in freedom, worship, love! joy in the ecstasy of life! Enough to merely be! enough to breathe! Joy! joy! all over joy!