WITH many a thousand kiss not yet content, <br />At length with One kiss I was forced to go; <br />After that bitter parting's depth of woe, <br />I deem'd the shore from which my steps I bent, <br />Its hills, streams, dwellings, mountains, as I went, <br />A pledge of joy, till daylight ceased to glow; <br />Then on my sight did blissful visions grow <br />In the dim-lighted, distant firmament, <br />And when at length the sea confined my gaze, <br />My ardent longing fill'd my heart once more; <br />What I had lost, unwillingly I sought. <br />Then Heaven appear'd to shed its kindly rays: <br />Methought that all I had possess'd of yore <br />Remain'd still mine--that I was reft of nought.<br /><br />Johann Wolfgang von Goethe<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/departure-8/
