Arts & Sciences
The Instructors
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1853) · From Antiques
Arts & Sciences
WHEN Diogenes quietly sunn'd himself in his barrel,
When Calanus with joy leapt in the flame-breathing grave,
Oh, what noble lessons were those for the rash son of Philip,
Were not the lord of the world e'en for instruction too great!
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “The Instructors.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/286/.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “The Instructors.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/286/.
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