<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=418858" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To My Friend - Ode I</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">TRANSPLANT the beauteous tree!<br>Gardener, it gives me pain;<br>A happier resting-place<br>Its trunk deserved.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet the strength of its nature<br>To Earth's exhausting avarice,<br>To Air's destructive inroads,<br>An antidote opposed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">See how it in springtime<br>Coins its pale green leaves!<br>Their orange-fragrance<br>Poisons each flyblow straight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The caterpillar's tooth<br>Is blunted by them;<br>With silv'ry hues they gleam<br>In the bright sunshine,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Its twigs the maiden<br>Fain would twine in<br>Her bridal-garland;<br>Youths its fruit are seeking.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">See, the autumn cometh!<br>The caterpillar<br>Sighs to the crafty spider,--<br>Sighs that the tree will not fade.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hov'ring thither<br>From out her yew-tree dwelling,<br>The gaudy foe advances<br>Against the kindly tree,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And cannot hurt it,<br>But the more artful one<br>Defiles with nauseous venom<br>Its silver leaves;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And sees with triumph<br>How the maiden shudders,<br>The youth, how mourns he,<br>On passing by.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Transplant the beauteous tree!<br>Gardener, it gives me pain;<br>Tree, thank the gardener<br>Who moves thee hence!</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=418858" data-title="To My Friend - Ode I de Johann Wolfgang von Goethe" data-description="TRANSPLANT the beauteous tree! Gardener, it gives me pain; A happier resting-place Its trunk deserved. Yet the strength of its nature To Earth's exhausting avarice, To Air's destructive inroads, An antidote opposed. See how it in springtime Coin..."></div> </div> </div>

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