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Hölderlin

Happy the boatman returns home to the quiet river
From far off islands where he took his harvest.
Well would I, too, like to come home;
Yet what have I ever reaped but sorrow?
River banks whose delights nurtured me,
Can you soothe love’s sorrow? And can you,
Forests of my childhood, when I arrive,
Restore to me that peace?

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