Social Commentaries
Admonition
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1853) · From Epigrams
Social Commentaries
WHEREFORE ever ramble on?
For the Good is lying near,
Fortune learn to seize alone,
For that Fortune's ever here.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “Admonition.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/213/.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “Admonition.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/213/.
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