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THE BLISS OF SORROW.

A poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · No. 68

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The Poems
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1853
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749–1832
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NEVER dry, never dry,

Tears that eternal love sheddeth! How dreary, how dead doth the world still appear, When only half-dried on the eye is the tear!

Never dry, never dry,

Tears that unhappy love sheddeth!

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