Ah yes, if I could have a magic cloakto whisk me off to foreign lands. I should not trade it for the richest robes, nor for the mantle of a king.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAbout author
- Author's profession: Poet
- Nationality: deutsch
- Born: August 28, 1749
- Died: March 22, 1832
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