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The Poems of Goethe

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Leader

Each should thus make proclamation

Of what he did well to-day!
That’s the match whose conflagration

Should inflame our tuneful lay.
Let it be our precept ever

To admit no waverer here!
For to act the good endeavour,

None but rascals meek appear.

CHORUS.

Surely we for wine may languish!

Let the bumper then go round!
For all sighs and groans of anguish

We have now in rapture drown’d.

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