Living
If the country I'm to show
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1853) · From West-Eastern Divan
Living
IF the country I'm to show,
Thou must on the housetop go.
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MLA
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “If the country I'm to show.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/349/.
Chicago
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. “If the country I'm to show.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/goethe/349/.
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