The Poems of Goethe - Translated in the original metres by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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page 172 of 704 (24%)
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Here's His health, through Whom we live! I that faith inherit. To our king the next toast give, Honour is his merit, 'Gainst each in-- and outward foe He's our rock and tower. Of his maintenance thinks he though, More that grows his power. Next to her good health I drink, Who has stirr'd my passion; Of his mistress let each think, Think in knightly fashion. If the beauteous maid but see Whom 'tis I now call so, Let her smiling nod to me: "Here's my love's health also!" To those friends,--the two or three,-- Be our next toast given, |
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