GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON. Autograph manuscript (unsigned), the first verse of his poem "Was es gilt," (published 1817), dated at bottom by the poet, "Jena, Pfingsten" [Whitsuntide] 1817. One page, oblong 4to, 167 x 197mm. (6 9/16 in. x 7 3/4 in.) on pale gray-green laid paper (possibly removed from an Album Amicorum(?), paper faintly foxed, ink inscription of Goethe's secretary Friedrich T . Kräuter, dated "Weimar, April 1843," in lower margins. "Bringst du die Natur heran Dass sie jeder nutzen kann; Falsches hast du nicht ersonnen, Hast der Menschen Gunst gewonnen."