Living
Sound, Sweet Song
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1853) · From Songs
Living
SOUND, sweet song, from some far land,
Sighing softly close at hand,
Now of joy, and now of woe!
Stars are wont to glimmer so.
Sooner thus will good unfold;
Children young and children old
Gladly hear thy numbers flow.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “Sound, Sweet Song.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/0/.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “Sound, Sweet Song.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/0/.
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