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Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, 2.13 (1796) [tr. Carlyle (1824)] - Goethe, Johann von | WIST Quotations
Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping and watching for the morrow, He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers. To earth, this weary earth, ye bring us, To guilt ye let us heedless go, Then leave repentance fierce to wring us: A moment's…