Versos English Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Margaret

English poem

Margaret

by (1749–1832)

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I dare not go! I've naught to hope for more. What boots it to escape? They lurk for me! 'Tis wretched to beg, as I must do, And with an evil conscience thereto! 'Tis wretched, in foreign lands to stray. And me they will catch, do what I may.