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THOU art confused my beloved at seeing the thousandfold union	A
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Shown in this flowery troop over the garden dispers'd	B
any a name dost thou hear assign'd one after another	C
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Falls on thy list'ning ear with a barbarian sound	D
None resembleth another yet all their forms have a likeness	E
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Therefore a mystical law is by the chorus proclaim'd	F
Yes a sacred enigma Oh dearest friend could I only	G
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Happily teach thee the word which may the mystery solve	H
Closely observe how the plant by little and little progressing	I
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Step by step guided on changeth to blossom and fruit	J
First from the seed it unravels itself as soon as the silent	K
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Fruit bearing womb of the earth kindly allows Its escape	L
And to the charms of the light the holy the ever in motion	A
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Trusteth the delicate leaves feebly beginning to shoot	J
Simply slumber'd the force in the seed a germ of the future	C
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Peacefully lock'd in itself 'neath the integument lay	M
Leaf and root and bud still void of colour and shapeless	E
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Thus doth the kernel while dry cover that motionless life	N
Upward then strives it to swell in gentle moisture confiding	I
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And from the night where it dwelt straightway ascendeth to light	O
Yet still simple remaineth its figure when first it appeareth	P
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And 'tis a token like this points out the child 'mid the plants	Q
Soon a shoot succeeding it riseth on high and reneweth	P
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Piling up node upon node ever the primitive form	R
Yet not ever alike for the following leaf as thou seest	O
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Ever produceth itself fashioned in manifold ways	S
Longer more indented in points and in parts more divided	O
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Which all deform'd until now slept in the organ below	T
So at length it attaineth the noble and destined perfection	A
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Which in full many a tribe fills thee with wondering awe	U
Many ribb'd and tooth'd on a surface juicy and swelling	I
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Free and unending the shoot seemeth in fullness to be	G
Yet here Nature restraineth with powerful hands the formation	A
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And to a perfecter end guideth with softness its growth	P
Less abundantly yielding the sap contracting the vessels	V
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So that the figure ere long gentler effects doth disclose	W
Soon and in silence is check'd the growth of the vigorous branches	X
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And the rib of the stalk fuller becometh in form	R
Leafless however and quick the tenderer stem then up springeth	P
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And a miraculous sight doth the observer enchant	O
Ranged in a circle in numbers that now are small and now countless	E
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Gather the smaller sized leaves close by the side of their like	Y
Round the axis compress'd the sheltering calyx unfoldeth	P
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And as the perfectest type brilliant hued coronals forms	Z
Thus doth Nature bloom in glory still nobler and fuller	C
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Showing in order arranged member on member uprear'd	O
Wonderment fresh dost thou feel as soon as the stem rears the flower	C
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Over the scaffolding frail of the alternating leaves	A2
But this glory is only the new creation's foreteller	C
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Yes the leaf with its hues feeleth the hand all divine	B2
And on a sudden contracteth itself the tenderest figures	C2
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Twofold as yet hasten on destined to blend into one	A
Lovingly now the beauteous pairs are standing together	C
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Gather'd in countless array there where the altar is raised	O
Hymen hovereth o'er them and scents delicious and mighty	O
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Stream forth their fragrance so sweet all things enliv'ning around	O
Presently parcell'd out unnumber'd germs are seen swelling	I
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Sweetly conceald in the womb where is made perfect the fruit	O
Here doth Nature close the ring of her forces eternal	D2
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Yet doth a new one at once cling to the one gone before	C
So that the chain be prolonged for ever through all generations	E2
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And that the whole may have life e'en as enjoy'd by each part	O
Now my beloved one turn thy gaze on the many hued thousands	F2
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Which confusing no more gladden the mind as they wave	G2
Every plant unto thee proclaimeth the laws everlasting	I
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Every flowered speaks louder and louder to thee	O
But if thou here canst decipher the mystic words of the goddess	E
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Everywhere will they be seen e'en though the features are changed	O
Creeping insects may linger the eager butterfly hasten	A
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Plastic and forming may man change e'en the figure decreed	O
Oh then bethink thee as well how out of the germ of acquaintance	H2
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Kindly intercourse sprang slowly unfolding its leaves	A2
Soon how friendship with might unveil'd itself in our bosoms	A2
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And how Amor at length brought forth blossom and fruit	O
Think of the manifold ways wherein Nature hath lent to our feelings	A2
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Silently giving them birth either the first or the last	O
Yes and rejoice in the present day For love that is holy	O
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Seeketh the noblest of fruits that where the thoughts are the same	I2
Where the opinions agree that the pair may in rapt contemplation	A
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Lovingly blend into one find the more excellent world	O

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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