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THE MISANTHROPE

 AT first awhile sits he,

With calm, unruffled brow;
His features then I see,
Distorted hideously,--

An owl's they might be now.
What is it, askest thou? Is't love, or is't ennui? 'Tis both at once, I vow.
1767-9.

Poem by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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