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HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories

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Seated on a lofty dais.<br />

Side by side, are bride and bridegroom.<br />

Donna Clara, Don Fernando,—<br />

And they murmur sweet love-whispers.<br />

And within the hall wave brightly<br />

All the gay-decked streams of dancers;<br />

And the rolling drums are beaten.<br />

Shrill the clamorous trumpet soundeth.<br />

"Wherefore, wherefore, beauteous lady.<br />

Are thy lovely glances fastened<br />

Yonder in the hall's far corner?"<br />

In amazement asked Fernando.<br />

"See'st thou not, oh Don Fernando,<br />

Yonder man in sable mantle?"<br />

And the knight spake, kindly smiling,<br />

"Why, 'tis nothing but a shadow."<br />

But the shadow drew anear them,<br />

'Twas a man in sable mantle.<br />

Clara knows at once Ramiro,<br />

And she greets him, blushing crimson.<br />

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