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by Sílvia
This week’s poem is a bit like last week’s, “Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam”: it has inspired many songs, but none is particularly well known. I’m talking about the poem that begins with the words “Freudvoll und leidvoll” [Full of joy and full of sorrow], by Goethe, which is part of the play Egmont. It's sung by Clärchen, the protagonist’s lover, to tell her mother [...]