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Portrait of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749–1832
4The Poems

----- 'TIS easier far a wreath to bind, Than a good owner fort to find.

I KILL'D a thousand flies overnight, Yet was waken'd by one, as soon as twas light.

To the mother I give; For the daughter I live.

A BREACH is every day,

By many a mortal storm'd; Let them fall in the gaps as they may,

Yet a heap of dead is ne'er form'd.

WHAT harm has thy poor mirror done, alas? Look not so ugly, prythee, in the glass!

1815.*

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