Living
How vast is mine inheritance, how glorious and sublime!
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1853) · From West-Eastern Divan
Living
How vast is mine inheritance, how glorious and sublime!
For time mine own possession is, the land I till is time!
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “How vast is mine inheritance, how glorious and sublime!” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/340/.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “How vast is mine inheritance, how glorious and sublime!” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/340/.
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