Book Of Love - One More Pair

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749 (Frankfurt) – 1832 (Weimar)



LOVE is indeed a glorious prize!
What fairer guerdon meets our eyes?--
Though neither wealth nor power are thine,
A very hero thou dost shine.
As of the prophet, they will tell,
Wamik and Asia's tale as well.--
They'll tell not of them,--they'll but give
Their names, which now are all that live.
The deeds they did, the toils they proved
No mortal knows! But that they loved
This know we. Here's the story true
Of Wamik and of Asia too.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Words 86
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12

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