Die Gedanken sind fri (German: +quot;These thoughts are free+quot;) Die Gedanken sind frei

               Die Gedanken sind fri
               (German: "These thoughts are free")

               Die Gedanken sind frei
               My thoughts freely flower
               Die Gedanken sind frei
               My thoughts give me power,
               No scholar can map them
               No hunter can trap them
               No one can deny --
               Die Gedanken sind frei

               I think as I please,
               And this gives me pleasure
               My conscience decrees,
               This right I must treasure;
               My thoughts will not cater
               To duke or dictator,
               No one can deny --
               Die Gedanken sind frei

               And should tyrants take me
               And throw me in prison,
               My thoughts will burst free,
               Like blossoms in season.
               Foundations will crumble,
               And structures will tumble,
               And freely I'll cry
               Die Gedanken sind frei

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[The following appeared in the April 1992 issue of The Humanist
Monthly, published by the Capital District Humanist Society, Inc.]

                           Amazing Place

     Singing lovely music is for many Secular Humanists the only
thing they miss from their former religious affiliations.  Now
Barbara Hamill Stocker has written much better words to "Amazing 
Grace," reprinted here from The Voice of Sanity, the newsletter of 
the Greenville Secular Humanist Fellowship.


               Amazing place, this world I find
               No gods nor creeds need be.
               I once believed but now my mind
               Unbound, at last is free.

               I need not strive for heaven above
               Nor fear no hell below.
               So free to live in peace and love
               In brotherhood to grow.

               No prayer of mine need e'er be heard,
               Just rationality.
               For reason reigns o'er holy work
               For all humanity.