Klarinet Archive - Posting 000345.txt from 1996/12
From: "Elizabeth R. Goeke 99" <goeke@-----.EDU> Subj: Re: Opus Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 00:02:23 -0500
Guys,
As a German minor, I feel it is my place to translate for the rest
of the world who was smart and avoided reading Faust in the original (like
I should have).
> Da steh ich, ich arme Tor,
So I stand, I poor gate (?, my Faust is in a friend's room)
> und bin so klug wie als zufor.
and am so smart as before.
> "It is better to have loved and lost,
> than to never have lost at all."
<Depends on your point of
view>
elizabeth
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Elizabeth Goeke
Middlebury College
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Middlebury, VT 05753
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