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

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Chapter 38

The Pink

That must be me, the pink, who scent

The warder's garden here;
Or wherefore is he so intent

My charms with care to rear?
My petals stand in beauteous ring,
Sweet incense all around I fling,

And boast a thousand colours.