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Venetian Epigram 13: Spacious and fair is the world; yet oh! how I thank the kind heavens
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1853) · From Venetian Epigrams
SPACIOUS and fair is the world; yet oh! how I thank the kind heavens
That I a garden possess, small though it be, yet mine own.
One which enticeth me homewards; why should a gardener wander?
Honour and pleasure he finds, when to his garden he looks.
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MLA
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “Venetian Epigram 13: Spacious and fair is the world; yet oh! how I thank the kind heavens.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/313/.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “Venetian Epigram 13: Spacious and fair is the world; yet oh! how I thank the kind heavens.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/313/.
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