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WHEN I WAS STILL A YOUTHFUL WIGHT

A poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · No. 16

Translated by: Edgar Alfred Bowring
Collection: The Poems
Year: 1853
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[Written at the age of 77.]

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