<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=418816" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Rat-Catcher</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I AM the bard known far and wide,<br>The travell'd rat-catcher beside;<br>A man most needful to this town,<br>So glorious through its old renown.<br>However many rats I see,<br>How many weasels there may be,<br>I cleanse the place from ev'ry one,<br>All needs must helter-skelter run.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sometimes the bard so full of cheer<br>As a child-catcher will appear,<br>Who e'en the wildest captive brings,<br>Whene'er his golden tales he sings.<br>However proud each boy in heart,<br>However much the maidens start,<br>I bid the chords sweet music make,<br>And all must follow in my wake.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sometimes the skillful bard ye view<br>In the form of maiden-catcher too;<br>For he no city enters e'er,<br>Without effecting wonders there.<br>However coy may be each maid,<br>However the women seem afraid,<br>Yet all will love-sick be ere long<br>To sound of magic lute and song.</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=418816" data-title="The Rat-Catcher de Johann Wolfgang von Goethe" data-description="I AM the bard known far and wide, The travell'd rat-catcher beside; A man most needful to this town, So glorious through its old renown. However many rats I see, How many weasels there may be, I cleanse the place from ev'ry one, All needs must hel..."></div> </div> </div>

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