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The poet should size the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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When glance turns
To a sky-blue clear day,
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Joy, sound to eye and heart,
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GER:
Wenn der Blick an heitern Tagen
Sich zur Himmelsbläue lenkt,
Beim Sirok der Sonnenwagen
Purpurrot sich niedersenkt,
Da gebt der Natur die Ehre,
Froh, an Aug und Herz gesund,
Und erkennt der Farbenlehre
Allgemeinen, ewigen Grund.

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