“I sing as the bird sings
That lives in the boughs.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ich singe, wie der Vogel singt
Der in den Zweigen wohnet.
Bk. II, Ch. 11
Wilhelm Meister's Lehrjahre (Apprenticeship) (1786–1830)

Original

Ich singe wie der Vogel singt, der in der Zweigen wohnet.

Der Sänger http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Der_S%C3%A4nger_(Goethe_1827) Vers 29 f.
Andere Werke
Variant: Ich singe, wie der Vogel singt
Der in den Zweigen wohnet.

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German writer, artist, and politician 1749–1832

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