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"Wir passen für einander nicht" hat oft dein Mund gesprochen, Und ach, mir hat dies harte Wort beinah' das Herz gebrochen. Der starre Fels, das zarte Moos, ob sie für einander passen? Und frag' den Fels, und frag' das Moos, ob sie von einander lassen?
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This text was added to the website: 2012-11-20
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"We do not suit each other," you have often told me, and ah how this grim phrase has almost broken my heart. The rigid rock, the tender moss, do they suit each other? And does the rock ask, and does the moss ask, whether they should leave each other?
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