Living
Antique Distich 3: Democratic food soon cloys on the multitude's stomach
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1853) · From Antiques
Living
DEMOCRATIC food soon cloys on the multitude's stomach;
But I'll wager, ere long, other thou'lt give them instead.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “Antique Distich 3: Democratic food soon cloys on the multitude's stomach.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/297/.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “Antique Distich 3: Democratic food soon cloys on the multitude's stomach.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/297/.
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