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HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories

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^tint. 65<br />

of cmel tenderness, she kissed his<br />

young heart so vehemently, with such<br />

passionate love and fervor, that his<br />

heart began to bleed, and suddenly comprehended<br />

all the sorrows of this earth,<br />

and was filled with infinite compassion.<br />

But the younger daughter of IVInemosyne,<br />

the rosy goddess of gaiety, was<br />

quickly at hand, and took the suffering<br />

boy into her arms, and tried to comfort<br />

him with laughter and song, and gave<br />

him for playthings the mask of comedy<br />

and the fool's bells, and soothed him<br />

with kisses; and with her kisses bestowed<br />

upon him all her levity, all her<br />

thoughtless giddiness, all her witty coquettish<br />

arts. Ever after, there was<br />

perpetual contradiction between the<br />

thoughts of Sterne's heart and the<br />

words, of his lips. Often when his<br />

heart is moved by tragic feeling,<br />

and he seeks to express the deep<br />

bleeding anguish of his soul, lo ! even<br />

to his own amazement, from his lips<br />

flow smiling delightsome words.<br />

FREEDOM.<br />

If freedom, which God forbid ! were<br />

ever to disappear from the whole earth,<br />

a German dreamer would discover her<br />

again in his dreams.

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