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SONNET: 9. GOETHE'S MONUMENT AT FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAIN, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Good german men, maids, matrons, pray give ear
Last Line: Whom a stream doth from sachsenhausen sever!
Subject(s): Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von (1749-1832); Monuments


GOOD German men, maids, matrons, pray give ear
Collect subscribers with the utmost speed,
The worthy folk of Frankfort have agreed
To build a monument to Goethe here.
"At fair time" (think they) "this will make it clear
"To foreign traders that we're of his breed,
"That 'twas our soil that nurtured such fair seed,
"And then in trade they'll trust us without fear."
O touch the bard's bright wreath of laurel never,
And keep your money in your pockets too;
'Tis Goethe's, his own monument to raise.
He dwelt amongst you in his infant days,
But half a world now severs him from you,
Whom a stream doth from Sachsenhausen sever!





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