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Proverb 5: What harm has thy poor mirror done, alas?
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1853) · From God, Soul, and World
Social Commentaries
WHAT harm has thy poor mirror done, alas?
Look not so ugly, prythee, in the glass!
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “Proverb 5: What harm has thy poor mirror done, alas?” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/270/.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “Proverb 5: What harm has thy poor mirror done, alas?” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/270/.
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