Social Commentaries
The Soldier's Consolation
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1853) · From Epigrams
Social Commentaries
No! in truth there's here no lack:
White the bread, the maidens black!
To another town, next night:
Black the bread, the maidens white!
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MLA
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “The Soldier's Consolation.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/198/.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “The Soldier's Consolation.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/198/.
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