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Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.

IV. Comfort and Cheer

Unchanging

Friedrich von Bodenstedt (1819–1892)

Anonymous translation from the German

IN early days methought that all must last;

Then I beheld all changing, dying, fleeting;

But though my soul now grieves for much that ’s past,

And changeful fortunes set my heart oft beating,

I yet believe in mind that all will last,

Because the old in new I still am meeting.