<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=418608" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Farewell</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">To break one's word is pleasure-fraught,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To do one's duty gives a smart;<br>While man, alas! will promise nought,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That is repugnant to his heart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Using some magic strains of yore,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou lurest him, when scarcely calm,<br>On to sweet folly's fragile bark once more,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Renewing, doubling chance of harm.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why seek to hide thyself from me?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fly not my sight--be open then!<br>Known late or early it must be,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And here thou hast thy word again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My duty is fulfill'd to-day,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No longer will I guard thee from surprise;<br>But, oh, forgive the friend who from thee turns away,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And to himself for refuge flies!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Johann+Wolfgang+von+Goethe">Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=418608" data-title="Farewell de Johann Wolfgang von Goethe" data-description="To break one's word is pleasure-fraught, To do one's duty gives a smart; While man, alas! will promise nought, That is repugnant to his heart. Using some magic strains of yore, Thou lurest him, when scarcely calm, On to sweet folly's fragile b..."></div> </div> </div>

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