Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow, - He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow, - He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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