To the Distant One

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Title:     To the Distant One
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [More Titles by Goethe]

AND have I lost thee evermore?

Hast thou, oh fair one, from me flown?
Still in mine ear sounds, as of yore,

Thine ev'ry word, thine ev'ry tone.

As when at morn the wand'rer's eye

Attempts to pierce the air in vain,
When, hidden in the azure sky,

The lark high o'er him chaunts his strain:

So do I cast my troubled gaze

Through bush, through forest, o'er the lea;
Thou art invoked by all my lays;

Oh, come then, loved one, back to me!

1789.

-THE END-
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's poem: To the Distant One

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