Religion
Error seeketh to deceive me
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1853) · From West-Eastern Divan
Religion
ERROR seeketh to deceive me,
Thou art able to retrieve me;
Both in action and in song
Keep my course from going wrong.
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MLA
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “Error seeketh to deceive me.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/322/.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “Error seeketh to deceive me.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/322/.
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