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RHYMES by FRIEDRICH VON LOGAU

First Line: IF PERHAPS THESE RHYMES OF MINE SHOULD SOULD NOT IN STRANGERS' EARS
Last Line: THEY WILL BE MOST HIGHLY VALUED WHERE THEY ARE BEST AND LONGEST KNOWN.

If perhaps these rhymes of mine should sound not well in strangers' ears,
They have only to bethink them that it happens so with theirs;
For so long as words, like mortals, call a fatherland their own,
They will be most highly valued where they are best and longest known.




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