Nature
To the Husbandman
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1853) · From Antiques
Nature
SMOOTHLY and lightly the golden seed by the furrow is cover'd;
Yet will a deeper one, friend, cover thy bones at the last.
Joyously plough'd and sow'd! Here food all living is budding,
E'en from the side of the tomb Hope will not vanish away.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “To the Husbandman.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/278/.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “To the Husbandman.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/278/.
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