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Found.

    By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



    ONCE through the forest

    Alone I went;
    To seek for nothing

    My thoughts were bent.

    I saw i' the shadow

    A flower stand there
    As stars it glisten'd,

    As eyes 'twas fair.

    I sought to pluck it,

    It gently said:
    "Shall I be gather'd

    Only to fade?"

    With all its roots

    I dug it with care,
    And took it home

    To my garden fair.

    In silent corner

    Soon it was set;
    There grows it ever,

    There blooms it yet.



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Translated in the original metres by Edgar Alfred Bowring


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