Living
Call on the present day and night for nought
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1853) · From West-Eastern Divan
Living
CALL on the present day and night for nought,
Save what by yesterday was brought.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “Call on the present day and night for nought.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/336/.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “Call on the present day and night for nought.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/336/.
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