Vulgar words in The Poems of Goethe - Translated in the original metres (Page 1)

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ass x 2
blockhead x 3
hussy x 1
            

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Mute and silent have we sat, Whilst the blockheads prated, And above e'en song divine Have their babblings rated; To account we've even call'd us For the moments that enthrall'd us, With enjoyment freighted.

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At all blockheads we'll at once Let our laugh ring clearly, And the pearly-foaming wine Never sip at merely.

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This, if I rightly understand, Means: "I'm a blockhead at first hand."

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Full many I've known into heaven to pass Straight and with ease, with the head of an ass!"

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Go and look after the business; else I shall scold you severely; But don't fancy I'll ever allow you to bring home in triumph As my daughter-in-law any boorish impudent hussy.

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----- IF the ass that bore the Saviour Were to Mecca driven, he Would not alter, but would be Still an ass in his behavior.

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