Not from the heavy soil
where blood and sex and oath
rule in their hallowed might,
where the earth itself,
guarding the primal consecrated order,
avenges wantonness and madness -
not from the heavy soil of the earth,
but from the spirit's choice and free desire, needing no oath of legal bond,
is friend bestowed on friend. (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

Not from the heavy soil where blood and sex and oath rule in their hallowed might, where the earth itself, guarding the primal consecrated order, avenges wantonness and madness - not from the heavy soil of the earth, but from the spirit's choice and free desire, needing no oath of legal bond, is friend bestowed on friend.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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