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I hurry off to drink eternal light; (from Faust)

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(1749 - 1832) Timeline

English version by
Peter Salm

Original Language
German

Secular or Eclectic
18th Century

I hurry off to drink eternal light;
before me lies the day, behind the night,
the sky above me, and the seas below.

 

 

-- from Faust, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / Translated by Peter Salm

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Themes

  Light
  Night
  Sky
  Wine
 


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Faust, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / Translated by Peter Salm
News of the Universe: Poems of Twofold Consciousness, Edited by Robert Bly

 

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