Paulo post futuri

Paulo post futuri

WEEP ye not, ye children dear,

That as yet ye are unborn:
For each sorrow and each tear

Makes the father's heart to mourn.

Patient be a short time to it,

Unproduced, and known to none;
If your father cannot do it,

By your mother 'twill be done.

1784.

-THE END-
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's poem: Paulo post futuri

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