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

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Chapter 11

The Experienced

Tenderly a woman view,

And thoult win her, take my word;
He who's quick and saucy too,

Will of all men be preferr'd;
Who ne'er seems as if he knew

If he pleases, if he charms,—

He 'tis injures, he 'tis harms.