Unchanging. Friedrich von Bodenstedt (1819-1892). IV. Comfort and Cheer. Bliss Carman, et al., eds. 1904. The World's Best Poetry. III. Sorrow and Consolation

Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume III. Sorrow and Consolation. 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,	5
Because the old in new I still am meeting.