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HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories

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Her slender, cypress-like form<br />

Is swathed in a light, white raiment.<br />

Her locks, in their dusky fullness.<br />

Like a blessed night.<br />

Streaming from her braid-crowned head.<br />

Curl softly^as a dream<br />

Around the sweet, pale face;<br />

And from the sweet, pale face<br />

Large and powerful beams an eye,<br />

Like a black sun.<br />

Oh thou black sun, how oft,<br />

How rapturously oft, I drank from thee<br />

The wild flames of inspiration!<br />

And stood and reeled, intoxicated with fire.<br />

Then there hovered a smile as mild as a dove,<br />

About the arched, haughty lips.<br />

And the arched, haughty lips<br />

Breathed forth words as sweet as moonlight,<br />

And delicate as the fragrance of the rose.<br />

And my soul soared aloft.<br />

And flew like an eagle up into the heavens.<br />

Silence ye waves and sea-mews!<br />

All is over! joy and hope—<br />

Hope and love! I lie on the ground<br />

An empty, shipwrecked man,<br />

And press my glowing face<br />

Into the moist sand.<br />

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