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TRUE REST by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

First Line: REST IS NOT QUITTING
Last Line: AND THIS IS TRUE REST.
Subject(s): RELIGION; THEOLOGY;
Rest is not quitting
The busy career;
Rest is the fitting
Of self to one's sphere.

'Tis the brook's motion
Clear without strife,
Fleeting to ocean,
After this life.

'Tis loving and serving,
The highest and best;
'Tis onward, unswerving,
And this is true rest.



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