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THE SOLDIER'S CONSOLATION.

A poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · No. 2

Translated by: Edgar Alfred Bowring
Collection: The Poems
Year: 1853
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No! in truth there's here no lack: White the bread, the maidens black! To another town, next night: Black the bread, the maidens white!

1815.*

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