THUS roll I, never taking ease,
My tub, like Saint Diogenes,
Now serious am, now seek to please;
Now love and hate in turn one sees;
The motives now are those, now these;
Now nothings, now realities.
Thus roll I, never taking ease,
My tub, like Saint Diogenes.

                                1810.

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Poet: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Poem: 3. GENIAL IMPULSE.
Volume: The Poems - 09. Epigrams
Year: Published/Written in 1853
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