<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=418825" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Spinner</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">As I calmly sat and span,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Toiling with all zeal,<br>Lo! a young and handsome man</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Pass'd my spinning-wheel.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And he praised,--what harm was there?--</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sweet the things he said--<br>Praised my flax-resembling hair,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the even thread.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He with this was not content,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But must needs do more;<br>And in twain the thread was rent,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though 'twas safe before.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the flax's stonelike weight</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Needed to be told;<br>But no longer was its state</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Valued as of old.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I took it to the weaver,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Something felt I start,<br>And more quickly, as with fever,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Throbb'd my trembling heart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then I bear the thread at length</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Through the heat, to bleach;<br>But, alas, I scarce have strength</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To the pool to reach.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What I in my little room</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Span so fine and slight,--<br>As was likely. I presume--</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Came at last to light.</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=418825" data-title="The Spinner de Johann Wolfgang von Goethe" data-description="As I calmly sat and span, Toiling with all zeal, Lo! a young and handsome man Pass'd my spinning-wheel. And he praised,--what harm was there?-- Sweet the things he said-- Praised my flax-resembling hair, And the even thread. He with this was..."></div> </div> </div>

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