Love's Hour-Glass
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Eros! wherefore do I see thee, with the glass in either hand?
Fickle God! with double measure wouldst thou count the shifting sand?
This one flows for parted lovers -- slowly drops each tiny bead --
That is for the days of dalliance, and it melts with golden speed.
A.
Source Book
Poems And Ballads Of Goethe
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Translated by
William Edmondstoune Aytoun, D.C.L. ("A.")
and Theodore Martin ("M.")
Copyright 1859
Published by Delisser & Procter
508 Broadway, New York
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