III. Book of Love - The Types

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Book of Love: The Types

 

LIST, and in memory bear
These six fond loving pair.
Love, when aroused, kept true
Rustan and Rad!
Strangers approach from far
Joseph and Suleika;
Love, void of hope, is in
Ferhad and Schirin.
Born for each other are
Medschnun and Lily;
Loving, though old and grey,
Dschemil saw Boteinah.
Love's sweet caprice anon,
Brown maid + and Solomon!
If thou dost mark them well,
Stronger thy love will swell.

1817.

(+ Brown maid is the Queen of Sheba.)

Content of III. Book of Love: The Types [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's poem collection: West-Eastern Divan]

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