now you who gather joyfully beneath the festive lights and warm each other soulfully with all of your delight take not too much comfort in this song for what you choose to elevate from what was cast below is but the tidal whimsy of the seas you do not know may well turn asunder before long a beauteous sound a diamond i have found a diamond i have found beneath the snow buried in the ground neath a ruddy mound neath a ruddy mound where nothing grows the guests are almost ready for the dancing to begin they ve come to toast the wedding between zion berlin so raise a glass up to the bride groom but don t confuse the deutsch yiddish nor the night day if a kaddish sounds like kiddush bow your head pray we never step upon the glass too soon a shayn gesang an oytser far a klang an oytser far a klang vi fun a khupe tsespaltn fun a shverd bagrobn tif in drerd unter der kupe so weigh your fortune carefully when prophesy reveals that decadence revelry can undermine your zeal turn the prophesy upon its ear for in the dying embers of a century of blood is all we must remember to avoid the coming flood of prophesies we all refuse to hear for singing broken melodies to songs in broken tongues cannot erase the memory of bells already rung nor can it unring the ones we hear so let the broken birds return upon their painted wings let the broken words be burned unto the songs we sing till every note is new unto our ears  a beauteous sound a diamond i have found a diamond i have found beneath the snow buried in the ground neath a ruddy mound neath a ruddy mound where nothing grows