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HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories

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which indeed is almost incomprehensible,<br />

since ve are so amiable, and during<br />

your stay among us took great<br />

pains to please at least the better and<br />

fairer half of the German people. But<br />

even though this half still love you, it<br />

is precisely the half that does not bear<br />

arms, and its friendship would therefore<br />

be of little help to you. . . . As ye<br />

are, despite your present romantic tendency,<br />

a truly classical people, ye know<br />

Olympus. Among the joyous gods and<br />

goddesses quaffing and feasting of<br />

nectar and ambrosia, ye may behold one<br />

goddess who, amid such gaiety and<br />

pastime, wears ever a coat of mail, the<br />

helm on her head, and the spear in her<br />

hand. She is the goddess of Wisdom.<br />

ARISTOCRACY.<br />

The Hanoverian squires are asses,<br />

who can talk of nothing but horses.<br />

THE TOUCH <strong>HEINE</strong>AN.<br />

Dear, when I look into thine eyes.<br />

My deepest sorrow straightway flies ;<br />

But when I kiss thy mouth, ah, then<br />

No thought remains of bygone pain.

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