Once through the forest <br /> <br />Alone I went; <br />To seek for nothing <br /> <br />My thoughts were bent. <br /> <br />I saw i' the shadow <br /> <br />A flower stand there <br />As stars it glisten'd, <br /> <br />As eyes 'twas fair. <br /> <br />I sought to pluck it,- <br /> <br />It gently said: <br />'Shall I be gather'd <br /> <br />Only to fade?' <br /> <br />With all its roots <br /> <br />I dug it with care, <br />And took it home <br /> <br />To my garden fair. <br /> <br />In silent corner <br /> <br />Soon it was set; <br />There grows it ever, <br /> <br />There blooms it yet.<br /><br />Johann Wolfgang von Goethe<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/found-26/
