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by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(1749-1832)
translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring
THE happiness that man, whilst prison'd here,
Is wont with heavenly
rapture to compare,--
The harmony of Truth, from wavering clear,--
Of Friendship that
is free from doubting care,--
The light which in stray thoughts alone can cheer
The wise,--the
bard alone in visions fair,--
In my best hours I found in her all this,
And made mine own, to mine exceeding bliss.
- 1820
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