Germany

Found
 
I wandered lonely
Beneath the trees,
And sought for nothing,
But strolled at ease.

There in the shadows
A flower grew,
Like starlight beaming,
Like eyes so blue.

I sought to break it,
But heard it say:
Shall I be broken
To fade away?

I dug it out then
With roots and all,
And bore it home to
My garden small.
 
Again it’s planted
And finds repose;
And now as ever
It blooms and grows.
 
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), Germany
Margarete Münsterberg, ed., trans. A Harvest of German Verse. 1916.
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Wer mit seinem Garten schon zufrieden ist - verdient ihn nicht!
Karl Foerster

"Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), Germany

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2. Ingrid Eulenfan, 2014, CC
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