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

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Chapter 56

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Now, sun, sink to rest! Now, sun, arise!

Ye stars, be now shining, now darkling!
A star of love now gleams in the skies,

All-sparkling!
As long as the fountain may spring and run,
So long will we two be blended in one,

Upon each other's bosoms!

1797. ——- THE TRAVELLER AND THE FARM~MAIDEN.