By the River (1798)

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Title:     By the River (1798)
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [More Titles by Goethe]

FLOW on, ye lays so loved, so fair,

On to Oblivion's ocean flow!
May no rapt boy recall you e'er,

No maiden in her beauty's glow!

My love alone was then your theme,

But now she scorns my passion true.
Ye were but written in the stream;

As it flows on, then, flow ye too!

1798.

-THE END-
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's poem: By the River (1798)

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