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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von: Gingko Biloba (Gingo Biloba in English)

Portre of Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Gingo Biloba (German)

Dieses Baums Blatt, der von Osten

Meinem Garten anvertraut,

Gibt geheimen Sinn zu kosten,

Wie's den Wissenden erbaut.

 

Ist es ein lebendig Wesen,

Das sich in sich selbst getrennt?

Sind es zwei, die sich erlesen,

Daß man sie als eines kennt?

 

Solche Frage zu erwidern,

Fand ich wohl den rechten Sinn;

Fühlst du nicht an meinen Liedern,

Daß ich eins und doppelt bin?



Uploaded byBenő Eszter
Source of the quotationhttp://baum-des-jahres.de

Gingko Biloba (English)

In my garden’s care and favour

From the East this tree’s leaf shows

Secret sense for us to savour

And uplifts the one who knows.

 

Is it but one being single

Which as same itself divides?

Are there two which choose to mingle

So that each as one now hides?

 

As the answer to such question

I have found a sense that’s true:

Is it not my songs’ suggestion

That I’m one and also two?



Uploaded byBenő Eszter
Source of the quotationhttp://lizzysiddal.wordpress.com

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