<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=418874" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Vanitas! Vanitatum Vanitas!</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">MY trust in nothing now is placed,</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Hurrah!<br>So in the world true joy I taste,</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Hurrah!<br>Then he who would be a comrade of mine<br>Must rattle his glass, and in chorus combine,<br>Over these dregs of wine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I placed my trust in gold and wealth,</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Hurrah!<br>But then I lost all joy and health,</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Lack-a-day!<br>Both here and there the money roll'd,<br>And when I had it here, behold,<br>From there had fled the gold!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I placed my trust in women next,</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Hurrah!<br>But there in truth was sorely vex'd,</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Lack-a-day!<br>The False another portion sought,<br>The True with tediousness were fraught,<br>The Best could not be bought.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My trust in travels then I placed,</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Hurrah!<br>And left my native land in haste.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Lack-a-day!<br>But not a single thing seem'd good,<br>The beds were bad, and strange the food,<br>And I not understood.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I placed my trust in rank and fame,</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Hurrah!<br>Another put me straight to shame,</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Lack-a-day!<br>And as I had been prominent,<br>All scowl'd upon me as I went,<br>I found not one content.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I placed my trust in war and fight,</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Hurrah!<br>We gain'd full many a triumph bright,</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Hurrah!<br>Into the foeman's land we cross'd,<br>We put our friends to equal cost,<br>And there a leg I lost.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My trust is placed in nothing now,</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Hurrah!<br>At my command the world must bow,</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Hurrah!<br>And as we've ended feast and strain,<br>The cup we'll to the bottom drain;<br>No dregs must there remain!</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=418874" data-title="Vanitas! Vanitatum Vanitas! de Johann Wolfgang von Goethe" data-description="MY trust in nothing now is placed, Hurrah! So in the world true joy I taste, Hurrah! Then he who would be a comrade of mine Must rattle his glass, and in chorus combine, Over these dregs of wine. I placed my trust in gold and wealth, Hurrah..."></div> </div> </div>

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