It was during these days that he wrote his famous hymn, "Valet will ich DIR geben," one of the finest hymns for the dying in the German language.
"The Story of Our Hymns"
Ernest Edwin Ryden
Lohengrin should sing the words "Heil DIR, Elsa!
"Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt, Volume 1"
Francis Hueffer (translator)
Ich freue mich und bin froehlich in DIR und lobe deinen Namen, du Allerhoechster.
"Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church"
Friedrich Bente