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HUMAN FEELINGS.

A poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · No. 21

Translated by: Edgar Alfred Bowring
Collection: The Poems
Year: 1853
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AH, ye gods! ye great immortals In the spacious heavens above us! Would ye on this earth but give us Steadfast minds and dauntless courage We, oh kindly ones, would leave you All your spacious heavens above us!

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