Spervogel (1150-1200). There Is a House in Heaven. Margarete Munsterberg, ed., trans. 1916. A Harvest of German Verse

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

There Is a House in Heaven

By 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.	5
No soul may enter there by right
That is not free from sin.