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HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories

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THE POET.<br />

A wonderful Sunday-child is the<br />

poet:* he sees the oak forests that<br />

still slumber in the acorn, and he holds<br />

converse with generations yet unborn.<br />

They whisper to him their secrets, and<br />

he prattles of them in the market-place.<br />

But his voice dies away unheard amid<br />

the loud strife of daily passions: few<br />

hear him, no one understands him.<br />

Frederick Schlegel called the historian<br />

a prophet who looks back into the past;<br />

with greater reason we may say of the<br />

poet that he is an historian whose eye<br />

discerns the future.<br />

THE GERMAN NATION.<br />

Other nations may be more versatile,<br />

more witty, and more entertaining, but<br />

* In Germany it is a Baperatition that fortunate<br />

people are born on Sunday.

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