HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories

12 Peace
High in heaven stood the sun.
Surrounded by white clouds.
The sea was calm;
And I lay musing on the helm of the ship,
Dreamily musing, and, half-awake,
Half asleep, I saw Christ,
The Savior of the world.
In waving white raiment
He strode gigantically tall
Over land and sea.
His head touched heaven.
He spread his hands in benediction
Over land and sea;
And for a heart in his bosom
He bore the sun.
The red fiery sun,
And the red, fiery sun-heart
Showered its beams of grace.
And its pure love-bestowing light.
That illumines and warms
Over land and sea.
Peals of festal bells drew hither and thither,
As swans might draw by chains of roses .
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