The Poems of Goethe, Translated in the Original Metres Papyras Classics

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Chapter 10

The Young Gentleman

With the Nymphs in wood and cave

Paris was acquainted well,
Till Zeus sent, to make him rave,

Three of those in Heav'n who dwell;
And the choice more trouble gave

Than e'er fell to mortal lot,

Whether in old times or not.