Like And Like

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Like And Like by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

 A FAIR bell-flower

Sprang tip from the ground;
And early its fragrance

It shed all around;
A bee came thither

And sipp'd from its bell;
That they for each other

Were made, we see well.

1814.

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