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The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Johann Wolfgang von GoetheOriginal title Der Zauberlehrling (German, 1797)

"The Sorcerer's Apprentice" is a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe written in 1797. The poem is a ballad in fourteen stanzas.


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“The spirits that I summoned up
I now can't rid myself of.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Der Zauberlehrling (The Sorcerer's Apprentice) (1797)

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