HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories

^eine*
none is so trusty as the trusty German
peojile. Did I not know that fidelity is
as old as the world I should believe
that a German heart had discovered it.
NATURE.
Nature, like a great poet, knows how
to produce the grandest effects with the
fewest materials. You have only a sun,
trees, flowers, water, and love. In
sooth, should this last be absent from
the heart of the beholder, the aspect of
the whole may be poor enough, for then
the sun is only so and so many miles
in diameter, and trees are good for fuel,
and flowers are classified according to
their stamens, and water is wet.
FLOWERS.
Perfumes are the feelings of flowers,
and as the human heart, imagining itself
alone and unwatched, feels most
deeply in the night-time, so seems it as
if the flowers, in musing modesty, await