Memoirs of Goethe:, Tomy 1-2Henry Colburn, 1824 - 350 |
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Strona 38 - Then old age and experience, hand in hand. Lead him to death, and make him understand, After a searcli so painful and so long, That all his life he has been in the wrong.
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