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The Sorcerer's Apprentice III

Stop! Stand still!
Heed my will!
I've enough
of the stuff!
I've forgotten - woe is me!
what the magic word may be.

Oh, the word to change him back
into what he was before!
Oh, he runs, and keeps on going!
Wish you'd be a broom once more!
He keeps bringing water
quickly as can be,
and a hundred rivers
he pours down on me!

No, no longer
can I let him,
I must get him
with some trick!
I'm beginning to feel sick.
What a look! - and what a face!

O, you ugly child of Hades!
The entire house will drown!
Everywhere I look, I see
water, water, running down.
Be you damned, old broom,
why won't you obey?
Be a stick once more,
please, I beg you, stay!


Der Zauberlehrling/ III
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(all Germans had to learn that poem in school ..so it will do without the German version


Last of three drawings.
Illustration for a poem and quotation collection book.
pencil, PS CS, Wacom Intous3

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