The seventh: “Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit!” (Luke 23:46)
With my own, I give into your gracious hands all believers' spirits. My death gives them life; my body's burial lifts them to your bosom; my descent to hell is their ascent to heaven. As I commit my spirit to your hand, I give them peace, for which I long have striven in heart's pain and torment, bloodied on the cross, till at last I reach my suffering's end. My love does not desire suffering, yet I will even die, so that mortality itself becomes immortal. My death conquers death. I bring resurrection with me into the earth. Earth and Death, you think you've swallowed Life: no! Even dying cannot extinguish Life. Click here to read this sonnet in the original German. Note: the document linked here contains the entire series of 7 sonnets.