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EXCUSE.

A poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · No. 12

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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The poem

THOU dost complain of woman for changing from one to another?

Censure her not: for she seeks one who will constant remain.

1789.*

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