Living
The sea is flowing ever
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1853) · From West-Eastern Divan
Living
THE sea is flowing ever,
The land retains it never.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “The sea is flowing ever.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/337/.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “The sea is flowing ever.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/337/.
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