Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Water its living strength first shows,
When obstacles its course oppose.

Water its living strength first shows,
When obstacles its course oppose.

A fiery chariot, borne on buoyant pinions,
Sweeps near me now! I soon shall ready be
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A fiery chariot, borne on buoyant pinions,
Sweeps near me now! I soon shall ready be
To pierce the ther's high, unknown dominions,
To reach new spheres of pure activity!

If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't follow. I'd be at the bottom to catch read more

If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't follow. I'd be at the bottom to catch them when they fall.

While man's desires and aspirations stir,
He can not choose but err.
[Ger., Es irrt der Mensch read more

While man's desires and aspirations stir,
He can not choose but err.
[Ger., Es irrt der Mensch so lang er strebt.]

Who never ate his bread in sorrow,
Who never spent the darksome hours
Weeping, and watching for read more

Who never ate his bread in sorrow,
Who never spent the darksome hours
Weeping, and watching for the morrow,--
He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers.
[Ger., Wer nie sein Brod mit Thranen ass,
Wer nicht die kummervollen Nachte
Auf seinem Bette weinend sass,
Der kennt euch nicht, ihr himmlischen Machte.]