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AlexBell · 07-16-2017, 01:50 AM

I'm now working on In the Mountains by Elizabeth von Arnim for the MobileRead library. The book was published in 1920, and doesn't have much German.

There is a couplet for which I can more or less translate each line, but can't make them make sense together. The couplet is:

Reines Glück geniesst doch nie
Wer zahlen soll und weiss nicht wie.

Can anyone help, please? If it is from a well known poem could you also provide the author's name?

07-16-2017, 01:50 AM	#1
AlexBell Wizard Posts: 3,413 Karma: 13369310 Join Date: May 2008 Location: Launceston, Tasmania Device: Sony PRS T3, Kobo Glo, Kindle Touch, iPad, Samsung SB 2 tablet	Help with German poetry please I'm now working on In the Mountains by Elizabeth von Arnim for the MobileRead library. The book was published in 1920, and doesn't have much German. There is a couplet for which I can more or less translate each line, but can't make them make sense together. The couplet is: Reines Glück geniesst doch nie Wer zahlen soll und weiss nicht wie. Can anyone help, please? If it is from a well known poem could you also provide the author's name?