Use your young days Use your young days,
learning time, be smarter.
on the happiness of large scale
is the tongue is rare.
You must rise or fall,
You have to prevail and win
or serve and lose, suffer or triumph
be
anvil or the hammer!
Oh, what to ask the man?
Oh, what to ask the man?
Is it better to remain quiet?
zuhangen clinging tightly to?
Is it better to drive it?
he believed to build a house?
Let him live in tents?
Should he be trusted on the rocks?
even shake the solid rock.
sends one is not for everyone!
Let each, as he's exaggerating,
Let each, where he remained,
And who is that he does not fall!
Hold these early blessing only an hour
Hold these early blessing
laid Oh, just one hour!
But full blossom rain ;
Schüttelt schon der laue West.
Soll ich mich des Grünen freuen,
Dem ich Schatten erst verdankt?
Bald wird Sturm auch das zerstreuen,
Wenn es halb im Herbst geschwankt.
Willst Du nach den Früchten greifen,
Eilig nimm Dein Teil davon!
Diese fangen an zu reifen,
Und die andern keimen schon;
Gleich mit jedem Regengusse
Ändert sich Dein holdes Tal,
Ach, und in demselben Flusse
Schwimmst Du nicht zum zweiten Mal.
Geburtstags-Gedichte von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life is short,
Like a dream in May.
I still rushing forward,
as an arrow.
For us it is,
Just one moment.
Do not let the
To this moment,
He wasted! 
