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From The Mountain

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From The Mountain by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

 [Written just after the preceding one, on a 
mountain overlooking the Lake of Zurich.]

IF I, dearest Lily, did not love thee,

How this prospect would enchant my sight!
And yet if I, Lily, did not love thee,

Could I find, or here, or there, delight?

1775.

Form: Quatrain

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