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The Poems of Goethe

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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He

But the owner surely is not wanting

Of these plains, with ev’ry beauty teeming?

Verdant fields, broad meads, and pastures gleaming, Gushing springs, all heav’nly and enchanting.

She

Thou must hunt the world through, wouldst thou find him!—

We have wealth enough in our possession,

And intend to purchase the succession,
When the good man leaves the world behind him.

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