THE WANDERER'S NIGHT-SONG.

Portrait of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749–1832
69The Poems

THOU who comest from on high,

Who all woes and sorrows stillest, Who, for twofold misery,

Hearts with twofold balsam fillest, Would this constant strife would cease!

What are pain and rapture now? Blissful Peace,

To my bosom hasten thou!

1789.*

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