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

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Chapter 80

Gabriel

And swift and swift, in wondrous guise,

Revolves the earth in splendour bright,
The radiant hues of Paradise

Alternating with deepest night.
From out the gulf against the rock,

In spreading billows foams the ocean,—
And cliff and sea with mighty shock,

The spheres whirl round in endless motion.