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The Mermaid From Goethe German Poem Fragment
Fragmentary OCR presents a German Goethe poem translated into English with garbled lines about a mermaid, sea waves, a fisher, a whale, and a haunting song. The text shows broken phrasing and misread words, with disordered punctuation and invented spellings. The overall sense appears to describe mermaid imagery and sea imagery in a lyric, but reliability is low.
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Rome
M. Vaais
Seafland
Edward Wortley
William Wortley
Felix Alvarez
Maguera
Spain
Alex. R. C. Dablas
Id Pols
Wags
Surrey Institution
London
Ogiish
Beners Comis Andregssy
Alexander Brunton
Edinburgh
Ierland
Ebenezer Henderson
We Bitish and Foreign Bible Society
Copenhagen
Murgphey Davy
Corton
Kater Tax
Vacua
George Shackburgh
Kater
Thos
Young
Laplace