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“Trost in Tränen" [Consolation in Tears]”

"Trost in Tränen" [Consolation in Tears] (written c. 1801–02; first published 1804, in Goethe's Werke)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) · written c. 1801–02; first published 1804, in Goethe's Werke

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pp. 27–29

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“xxx The Consolers - (Trost in Thranen) / Goethe. / Why art thou so gloomy when all around are joyful - Do not those eyes inform me that thou went in tears but now?”

Fuller, Margaret. "Translations from German." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086; Box 5 (101).