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Goethe - Selected poems - Who never wept to eat his bread
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Johann Wolfgang Goethe – from Selected Poetry
Who never wept to eat his bread
Who never sat through grievous hours
Of night in tears upon his bed
He knows you not, you highest powers
You lead us into life, to stray
Into our destined guilt, and then
Leave us to suffer and to pay
The debt all guilt exacts from mortal men