FLOW on, ye lays so loved, so fair,

On to Oblivion's ocean flow!
May no rapt boy recall you e'er,

No maiden in her beauty's glow!

My love alone was then your theme,

But now she scorns my passion true.
Ye were but written in the stream;

As it flows on, then, flow ye too!

1798.*

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Poet: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Poem: 43. BY THE RIVER.
Volume: The Poems - 01. Songs
Year: Published/Written in 1853
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