With a painted Ribbon

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Title:     With a painted Ribbon
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [More Titles by Goethe]

LITTLE leaves and flow'rets too,

Scatter we with gentle hand,
Kind young spring-gods to the view,

Sporting on an airy band.

Zephyr, bear it on the wing,

Twine it round my loved one's dress;
To her glass then let her spring,

Full of eager joyousness.

Roses round her let her see,

She herself a youthful rose.
Grant, dear life, one look to me!

'Twill repay me all my woes,

What this bosom feels, feel thou.

Freely offer me thy hand;
Let the band that joins us now

Be no fragile rosy band!

1770.

-THE END-
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's poem: With a painted Ribbon

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