The Works of J. W. von Goethe/Volume 9/Sound, Sweet Song

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

SOUND, SWEET SONG.

Sound, sweet song, from some far land.
Sighing softly close at hand,
Now of joy, and now of woe!
Stars are wont to glimmer so.
Sooner thus will good unfold;
Children young and children old
Gladly hear thy numbers flow.