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ADMONITION.

A poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · No. 14

Translated by: Edgar Alfred Bowring
Collection: The Poems
Year: 1853
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Portrait of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749–1832

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WHEREFORE ever ramble on?

For the Good is lying near, Fortune learn to seize alone,

For that Fortune's ever here.

1789.

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