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CLOSENESS OF THE BELOVED

 

From the German of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

I think of you when the sea’s surface shimmers

           With sunny gleams;

And of you when the moon’s reflection glimmers

           On welling streams.

...

(Translated by Alan Marshfield)

 (For full translation see the Kindle ebook The Translations of Alan Marshfield)

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