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THE BEST.

A poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · No. 6

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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WHEN head and heart are busy, say,

What better can be found? Who neither loves nor goes astray,

Were better under ground.

1815.*

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