Social Commentaries
The Fox and Huntsman
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1853) · From Parables
Social Commentaries
HARD 'tis on a fox's traces
To arrive, midst forest-glades;
Hopeless utterly the chase is,
If his flight the huntsman aids.
And so 'tis with many a wonder,
(Why A B make Ab in fact,)
Over which we gape and blunder,
And our head and brains distract.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “The Fox and Huntsman.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/239/.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “The Fox and Huntsman.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/239/.
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