Living
Different Threats
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1853) · From Songs
Living
I ONCE into a forest far
My maiden went to seek,
And fell upon her neck, when: "Ah!"
She threaten'd, "I will shriek!"
Then cried I haughtily: "I'll crush
The man that dares come near thee!"
"Hush!" whisper'd she: "My loved one, hush!
Or else they'll overhear thee!"
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “Different Threats.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/22/.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “Different Threats.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/22/.
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