Reach out your hand to me, oh cloud

Schumann, Robert

Reach out your hand to me, oh cloud,

Lift me up to where you are!

There my brothers stand

At the open gate of heaven.

It is they, although in life

I never once saw them,

For in their midst

I see our father standing!

They look down upon me,

They beckon me to their side.

Reach out your hand to me, oh cloud,

Quickly, quickly raise me up!