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!