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🦋 Rhyme and meter!

Hey look at that! I translated a rhyming, metered poem, and preserved the rhyme and meter! Not sure that has ever happened before. Goethe inscribed this poem in a book given to his daughter (according to Blumenberg, the book was Johnson's Dictionary) --

My translation--

The books are thick! and full of stuff!
I'm never going to learn enough!
If it won't come in my head,
I'll leave it in the book instead.

(Note -- found this poem while reading Blumenberg's Care Crossing the River.)

posted evening of Sunday, February 25th, 2018
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posted evening of February 27th, 2018 by Randolph

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