Living
Though the bards whom the Orient sun bath bless'd
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1853) · From West-Eastern Divan
Living
THOUGH the bards whom the Orient sun bath bless'd
Are greater than we who dwell in the west,
Yet in hatred of those whom our equals we find.
In this we're not in the least behind.
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MLA
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “Though the bards whom the Orient sun bath bless'd.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/342/.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “Though the bards whom the Orient sun bath bless'd.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/342/.
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