APPARENT DEATH.

Portrait of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749–1832
35The Poems

WEEP, maiden, weep here o'er the tomb of Love;

He died of nothing--by mere chance was slain. But is he really dead?--oh, that I cannot prove:

A nothing, a mere chance, oft gives him life again.

1767-9.

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