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Becalmed at Sea
By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Deepest silence rules the waters,
Not a motion stirs the sea,
And the sailor views the glassy
Surface so uneasily.
Not a breeze from any quarter,
Dreadful silence, still as death.
In the vast, appalling distance
Not a ripple shows itself.
Posted by permission of the translator
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