Measuring Time by Goethe

in poem •  6 years ago 

Eros, what have we here! An hourglass in each of your hands!

What? Frivolous god, are you doubly measuring time?

‘The hours of lovers apart flow slowly through one:

For lovers together the hours through the second one fly.’

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