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HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories

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14 i$tmt.<br />

I always told thee I should turn<br />

Respectable some day, man.<br />

" And every morn some miracle<br />

I'll work for thy impressing ;<br />

And for thy sport I'll pour to-day<br />

Upon Berlin my blessing.<br />

" The paving-stones in every street<br />

Shall split, the town all over.<br />

And lo! an oyster fresh and clear<br />

Shall every stone discover.<br />

" A rain of fresh-squeezed lemon-juice<br />

Shall daintily bedew them.<br />

The very kennels, rare old Hock<br />

Shall run like water through them."<br />

How all Berlin comes out to browse,<br />

With hearts in joyous flutter !<br />

The gentry of the county courts<br />

Lap wine from every gutter.<br />

How gleefully the poets rush<br />

This feast for gods to eat up !<br />

Lieutenants eke with ensigns troop<br />

To lick the very street up.<br />

The ensigns and lieutenants, though.<br />

Are shrewdest in the mellay :<br />

They know that every day can't work<br />

Such wonders for their belly.

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