<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=418795" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Magic Net</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Do I see a contest yonder?<br>See I miracles or pastimes?<br>Beauteous urchins, five in number,<br>'Gainst five sisters fair contending,--<br>Measured is the time they're beating--<br>At a bright enchantress' bidding.<br>Glitt'ring spears by some are wielded,<br>Threads are others nimbly twining,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So that in their snares, the weapons<br>One would think, must needs be captured,<br>Soon, in truth, the spears are prison'd;<br>Yet they, in the gentle war-dance,<br>One by one escape their fetters<br>In the row of loops so tender,<br>That make haste to seize a free one<br>Soon as they release a captive.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So with contests, strivings, triumphs,<br>Flying now, and now returning,<br>Is an artful net soon woven,<br>In its whiteness like the snow-flakes,<br>That, from light amid the darkness,<br>Draw their streaky lines so varied,<br>As e'en colours scarce can draw them.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who shall now receive that garment<br>Far beyond all others wish'd-for?<br>Whom our much-loved mistress favour<br>As her own acknowledged servant?<br>I am blest by kindly Fortune's<br>Tokens true, in silence pray'd for!<br>And I feel myself held captive,<br>To her service now devoted.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet, e'en while I, thus enraptured,<br>Thus adorn'd, am proudly wand'ring,<br>See! yon wantons are entwining,<br>Void of strife, with secret ardour,<br>Other nets, each fine and finer,<br>Threads of twilight interweaving,<br>Moonbeams sweet, night-violets' balsam.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ere the net is noticed by us,<br>Is a happier one imprison'd,<br>Whom we, one and all, together<br>Greet with envy and with blessings.</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=418795" data-title="The Magic Net de Johann Wolfgang von Goethe" data-description="Do I see a contest yonder? See I miracles or pastimes? Beauteous urchins, five in number, 'Gainst five sisters fair contending,-- Measured is the time they're beating-- At a bright enchantress' bidding. Glitt'ring spears by some are wielded, Threa..."></div> </div> </div>

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