<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=418860" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To My Friend - Ode III</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">BE void of feeling!<br>A heart that soon is stirr'd,<br>Is a possession sad<br>Upon this changing earth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Behrisch, let spring's sweet smile<br>Never gladden thy brow!<br>Then winter's gloomy tempests<br>Never will shadow it o'er.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lean thyself ne'er on a maiden's<br>Sorrow-engendering breast.<br>Ne'er on the arm,<br>Misery-fraught, of a friend.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Already envy<br>From out his rocky ambush<br>Upon thee turns<br>The force of his lynx-like eyes,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Stretches his talons,<br>On thee falls,<br>In thy shoulders<br>Cunningly plants them.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Strong are his skinny arms,<br>As panther-claws;<br>He shaketh thee,<br>And rends thy frame.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Death 'tis to part,<br>'Tis threefold death<br>To part, not hoping<br>Ever to meet again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou wouldst rejoice to leave<br>This hated land behind,<br>Wert thou not chain'd to me<br>With friendships flowery chains.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Burst them! I'll not repine.<br>No noble friend<br>Would stay his fellow-captive,<br>If means of flight appear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The remembrance<br>Of his dear friend's freedom<br>Gives him freedom<br>In his dungeon.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thou go'st,--I'm left.<br>But e'en already<br>The last year's winged spokes<br>Whirl round the smoking axle.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I number the turns<br>Of the thundering wheel;<br>The last one I bless.--<br>Each bar then is broken, I'm free then as thou!</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=418860" data-title="To My Friend - Ode III de Johann Wolfgang von Goethe" data-description="BE void of feeling! A heart that soon is stirr'd, Is a possession sad Upon this changing earth. Behrisch, let spring's sweet smile Never gladden thy brow! Then winter's gloomy tempests Never will shadow it o'er. Lean thyself ne'er on a maiden's ..."></div> </div> </div>

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