Solitude
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Grant, O ye healing Nymphs, that have your haunts
By rock and stream and lonely forest-glade,
The boon which, in their bosoms' silent depths,
Your votaries crave! Unto the sad of heart
Give comfort -- knowledge unto him that doubts --
Possession to the lover, and its joy.
For unto you the Gods have given, what they
Denied to man -- to aid and to console
All those soe'er, who put their trust in you.
M.
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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