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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

9612 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832 John Bartlett

 
NUMBER:9612
AUTHOR:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832)
QUOTATION:Know’st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom,
Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket’s gloom,
Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows,
And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose? 1
ATTRIBUTION:Wilhelm Meister. Book iii. Chap. i.
WORKS:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Collection.
 
Note 1.
See Byron, Quotation 122. [back]