IV. Book of Contemplation - Five Things

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Book of Contemplation: Five Things

 

WHAT makes time short to me?

Activity!
What makes it long and spiritless?

'Tis idleness!
What brings us to debt?

To delay and forget!
What makes us succeed?

Decision with speed
How to fame to ascend?

Oneself to defend!

1814.

Content of IV. Book of Contemplation: Five Things [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's poem collection: West-Eastern Divan]

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