Love
Like and Like
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1853) · From Songs
Love
A FAIR bell-flower
Sprang tip from the ground;
And early its fragrance
It shed all around;
A bee came thither
And sipp'd from its bell;
That they for each other
Were made, we see well.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “Like and Like.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/12/.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “Like and Like.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/12/.
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