<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=418622" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>From Faust - I. Dedication</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">YE shadowy forms, again ye're drawing near,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So wont of yore to meet my troubled gaze!<br>Were it in vain to seek to keep you here?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Loves still my heart that dream of olden days?<br>Oh, come then! and in pristine force appear,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Parting the vapor mist that round me plays!<br>My bosom finds its youthful strength again,<br>Feeling the magic breeze that marks your train.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ye bring the forms of happy days of yore,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And many a shadow loved attends you too;<br>Like some old lay, whose dream was well nigh o'er,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">First-love appears again, and friendship true;<br>Upon life's labyrinthine path once more</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is heard the sigh, and grief revives anew;<br>The friends are told, who, in their hour of pride,<br>Deceived by fortune, vanish'd from my side.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No longer do they hear my plaintive song,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The souls to whom I sang in life's young day;<br>Scatter'd for ever now the friendly throng,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And mute, alas! each sweet responsive lay.<br>My strains but to the careless crowd belong,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Their smiles but sorrow to my heart convey;<br>And all who heard my numbers erst with gladness,<br>If living yet, roam o'er the earth in sadness.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Long buried yearnings in my breast arise,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yon calm and solemn spirit-realm to gain;<br>Like the AEONIAN harp's sweet melodies,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My murmuring song breathes forth its changeful strain.<br>A trembling seizes me, tears fill mine eyes,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And softer grows my rugged heart amain.<br>All I possess far distant seems to be,<br>The vanish'd only seems reality.</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=418622" data-title="From Faust - I. Dedication de Johann Wolfgang von Goethe" data-description="YE shadowy forms, again ye're drawing near, So wont of yore to meet my troubled gaze! Were it in vain to seek to keep you here? Loves still my heart that dream of olden days? Oh, come then! and in pristine force appear, Parting the vapor mist t..."></div> </div> </div>

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