Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832 / Frankfurt am Main

Epitaph

As a boy, reserved and naughty;
As a youth, a coxcomb and haughty;
As a man, for action inclined;
As a greybeard, fickle in mind.--
Upon thy grave will people read:
This was a very man, indeed!
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