FIRST LOSS.

Portrait of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749–1832
38The Poems

AH! who'll e'er those days restore,

Those bright days of early love Who'll one hour again concede,

Of that time so fondly cherish'd! Silently my wounds I feed, And with wailing evermore

Sorrow o'er each joy now perish'd. Ah! who'll e'er the days restore

Of that time so fondly cherish'd.

1789.*

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