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HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories

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lo In Port<br />

Happy the man who has reached port.<br />

And left behind the sea and the tempest.<br />

And who now sits, quietly and warm.<br />

In the goodly town-cellar of Bremen.<br />

How pleasantly and cordially<br />

The world is mirrored in the wine-glass.<br />

And how the waving microcosm<br />

Pours sunnily down into the thirsty heart!<br />

I see everything in the glass,—<br />

Ancient and modern tribes,<br />

Turks and Greeks, Hegel and Cans,<br />

Citron groves and guard-parades,<br />

Berlin and Schilda, and Tunis and Hamburg.<br />

Above all the image of my beloved.<br />

The litde angel-head against the golden background<br />

of Rhine-wine.<br />

Oh how beautiful! how beautiful thou art, beloved!<br />

Thou art like a rose.<br />

Not like the Rose of Shiraz,<br />

The Hafiz-besung bride of the nightingale.<br />

Not like the Rose of Sharon,<br />

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