Living
Once when I a spider had kill'd
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1853) · From West-Eastern Divan
Living
ONCE when I a spider had kill'd,
Then methought: wast right or wrong?
That we both to these times should belong,
This had God in His goodness willed.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “Once when I a spider had kill'd.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/347/.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “Once when I a spider had kill'd.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/347/.
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