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Creation edit
I'm sorry if this is not up-to-standard for Wikipedia. But I came across a broken link to the poem in Iron law of wages, and needed to know what it said. There was not a lot of good info on the web, and it seemed like the sort of thing Wikipedia should contain.
So I ran the poem, and the opening paragraph of the German Wikipedia entry, through an on-line translator. Then I looked at other translations, tried to clean it up a bit without violating any copyright laws. Hope this is useful, feel free to edit and expand as needed.
Lyrics section edit
I've combined the German and English lyrics sections into one, in order to compact the page, using the <poem> template. That said, I'm not familiar with that template, so just copied as-is from the article on Ode to Joy - anyone who knows how this template works, please feel free to improve. DoubleGrazing (talk) 07:14, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
'Hymn'? edit
The article refers to the work as 'hymn' (as does the lede of the German article), yet there is no mention of any corresponding melody composition and arrangement. Isn't this therefore rather a (lyric) poem? (The German article goes on later to refer to it repeatedly as Gedicht ie. poem, which would seem to support this.) I've left it as 'hymn' for now, but if anyone knows better, please feel free to change. DoubleGrazing (talk) 07:27, 1 April 2020 (UTC)