Friday, May 28, 2010

Daily Poem

Here's the very beginning of Faust, Goethe's epic.
 
FAUST

I HAVE, alas! Philosophy,
Medicine, Jurisprudence too,
And to my cost Theology,
With ardent labour, studied through.
And here I stand, with all my lore,        5
Poor fool, no wiser than before.

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