| Margarete Münsterberg, ed., trans. A Harvest of German Verse. 1916. | | | | Found | | By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) |
| | | I WANDERED lonely | |
| Beneath the trees, | |
| And sought for nothing, | |
| But strolled at ease. | |
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| There in the shadows | 5 |
| A flower grew, | |
| Like starlight beaming, | |
| Like eyes so blue. | |
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| I sought to break it, | |
| But heard it say: | 10 |
| “Shall I be broken | |
| To fade away?” | |
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| I dug it out then | |
| With roots and all, | |
| And bore it home to | 15 |
| My garden small. | |
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| Again it’s planted | |
| And finds repose; | |
| And now as ever | |
| It blooms and grows. | 20 | | | |
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