Know’st thou the Land (Goethe/Coleridge)

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"Know’st thou the Land ..." (1829)
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Published as the epigraph to Joseph Hardman's "Colonna the Painter" in Blackwood's Magazine volume 26 (September 1829). Coleridge started translating the third verse, and the lines he completed were published in Scribner's Magazine volume 93 (January 1933).

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Know’st thou the Land where the pale Citrons blow,
And Golden Fruits through dark green foliage glow?
O soft the breeze that breathes from that blue sky!
Still stand the Myrtles and the Laurels high.
Know’st thou it well? O thither, Friend!
Thither with thee, Beloved! would I wend.

Know’st thou the House? On Columns rests its Height;
Shines the Saloon; the Chambers glisten bright;
And Marble Figures stand and look at me—
Ah, thou poor Child! what have they done to thee!
Know’st thou it well? O thither, Friend!
Thither with thee, Protector! would I wend.

S. T. Coleridge, from Goethe.

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