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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=418829" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Traveller And The Farm-Maiden</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">HE.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">CANST thou give, oh fair and matchless maiden,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Neath the shadow of the lindens yonder,--</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where I'd fain one moment cease to wander,--<br>Food and drink to one so heavy laden?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">SHE.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wouldst thou find refreshment, traveller weary,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bread, ripe fruit and cream to meet thy wishes,--</div><div style="margin:10px 0">None but Nature's plain and homely dishes,--<br>Near the spring may soothe thy wanderings dreary.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">HE.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dreams of old acquaintance now pass through me,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ne'er-forgotten queen of hours of blisses.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Likenesses I've often found, but this is<br>One that quite a marvel seemeth to me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">SHE.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Travellers often wonder beyond measure,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But their wonder soon see cause to smother;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fair and dark are often like each other,<br>Both inspire the mind with equal pleasure.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">HE.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not now for the first time I surrender</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To this form, in humble adoration;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was brightest midst the constellation<br>In the hail adorn'd with festal splendour.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">SHE.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Be thou joyful that 'tis in my power</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To complete thy strange and merry story!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Silks behind her, full of purple glory,<br>Floated, when thou saw'st her in that hour.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">HE.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No, in truth, thou hast not sung it rightly!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Spirits may have told thee all about it;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Pearls and gems they spoke of, do not doubt it,--<br>By her gaze eclipsed,--it gleam'd so brightly!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">SHE.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This one thing I certainly collected:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That the fair one--(say nought, I entreat thee!)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fondly hoping once again to meet thee,<br>Many a castle in the air erected.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">HE.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">By each wind I ceaselessly was driven,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Seeking gold and honour, too, to capture!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When my wand'rings end, then oh, what rapture,<br>If to find that form again 'tis given!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">SHE.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Tis the daughter of the race now banish'd</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That thou seest, not her likeness only;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Helen and her brother, glad though lonely,<br>Till this farm of their estate now vanish'd.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">HE.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But the owner surely is not wanting</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of these plains, with ev'ry beauty teeming?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Verdant fields, broad meads, and pastures gleaming,<br>Gushing springs, all heav'nly and enchanting.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">SHE.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou must hunt the world through, wouldst thou find him!--</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We have wealth enough in our possession,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And intend to purchase the succession,<br>When the good man leaves the world behind him.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">HE.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have learnt the owner's own condition,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And, fair maiden, thou indeed canst buy it;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But the cost is great, I won't deny it,--<br>Helen is the price,--with thy permission!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">SHE.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Did then fate and rank keep us asunder,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And must Love take this road, and no other?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yonder comes my dear and trusty brother;<br>What will he say to it all, I wonder?</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>
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CANST thou give, oh fair and matchless maiden,

'Neath the shadow of the lindens yonder,--

Where I'd fain one moment cease to wander,--
Food and drink to one so heavy laden?

SHE.

Wouldst thou find refreshment, traveller weary,

Bread, ripe..."></div>
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