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

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Chapter 40

The Violet

Here stand I, modestly half hid,

And fain would silence keep;
Yet since to speak I now am bid,

I'll break my silence deep.
If, worthy Knight, I am that flower,
It grieves me that I have not power

To breathe forth all my sweetness.