Living
Warning
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1853) · From Antiques
Living
WAKEN not Amor from sleep! The beauteous urchin still slumbers;
Go, and complete thou the task, that to the day is assign'd!
Thus doth the prudent mother with care turn time to her profit,
While her babe is asleep, for 'twill awake but too soon.
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MLA
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “Warning.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/282/.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “Warning.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/282/.
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