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Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (9th), Fourth Movement
 
"I will seize Fate by the throat. It will not wholly conquer me! Oh, how beautiful it is to live - and live a thousand times over!" -LvB

* Friends! Not these sounds!
But let us strike up more pleasant sounds and more joyful! 

* Joy, o wondrous spark divine, 
Daughter of Elysium, 
Drunk with fire now we enter, 
Heavenly one, your holy shrine.
Your magic powers join again
what fashion strictly did divide; 
Brotherhood unites all men
where your gentle wings spread wide. 

* The man who's been so fortunate
to become the friend of a friend, 
the man who has won a fair woman - 
To the rejoicing let him add his voice.
The man who calls but a single soul
somewhere in the world his own!
And he who never managed this - 
Let him steal forth from our throng! 

* Joy is drunk by every creature
From Nature's fair and charming breast; 
every being, good or evil, 
Follows in her rosy steps.
Kisses she gave to us, and vines, 
and one good friend, tried in death; 
the serpent she endowed with base desire
and the cherub stands before God. 

* Gladly as His suns do fly
Through the heavens' splendid plan,
Run now, brothers, your own course,
Joyful like a conquering hero 

* Embrace each other now, you millions!
The kiss is for the whole wide world!
Brothers - over the starry firmament
a beloved Father must surely dwell. 

* Do you come crashing down, you millions? 
Do you sense the Creators presence, world?
Seek Him above the starry firmament, 
for above the stars he surely dwells.