Versos English Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Margaret

English poem

Margaret

by (1749–1832)

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(plaiting and binding up the braids of her hair)

I’d something give, could I but say Who was that gentleman, to-day. Surely a gallant man was he, And of a noble family; And much could I in his face behold,— And he wouldn’t, else, have been so bold!

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