OVER vale and torrent far
Rolls along the sun’s bright car.
Ah! he wakens in his course
Mine, as thy deep-seated smart
In the heart.
Ev’ry morning with new force.
Scarce avails night aught to me;
E’en the visions that I see
Come but in a mournful guise;
And I feel this silent smart
In my heart
With creative pow’r arise.
During many a beauteous year
I have seen ships ‘neath me steer,
As they seek the shelt’ring bay;
But, alas, each lasting smart
In my heart
Floats not with the stream away.
I must wear a gala dress,
Long stored up within my press,
For to-day to feasts is given;
None know with what bitter smart
Is my heart
Fearfully and madly riven.
Secretly I weep each tear,
Yet can cheerful e’en appear,
With a face of healthy red;
For if deadly were this silent smart
In my heart,
Ah, I then had long been dead!
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
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