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The Poems of Goethe

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Chorus of Watchers

Ye valiant watchers, now divide
Your numbers through the forest wide,

And see that all is still,

While they their rites fulfil.

A Watcher

Let us in a cunning wise,
Yon dull Christian priests surprise
With the devil of their talk

We’ll those very priests confound.
Come with prong, and come with fork.

Raise a wild and rattling sound
Through the livelong night, and prowl

All the rocky passes round.
Screechowl, owl,
Join in chorus with our howl!

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