WARNING.

Portrait of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749–1832
6The Poems

WAKEN not Amor from sleep! The beauteous urchin still slumbers;

Go, and complete thou the task, that to the day is assign'd! Thus doth the prudent mother with care turn time to her profit,

While her babe is asleep, for 'twill awake but too soon.

                                1785.*

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