HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories

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A. D. 1848.
Unprecedented and fabulous were indeed
the events of those crazy February
days, when the wisdom of the wisest
was brought to naught; and the chosen
ones of imbecility were raised aloft in
triumph. The last became the first, and
the lowliest became the highest.
Matter, like thought, was turned upside
down, and the world was topsy-turvy.
If in those mad days I had been sane,
those events would surely have cost me
my wits; but, lunatic as I then was, the
contrary necessarily came to pass, and,
strange to say, just in the days of universal
madness I regained my reason!
Like many other divinities of that revolutionary
period, I was compelled to abdicate
ignominiously, and to return to
the lowly life of humanity. I came back
into the humble fold of God's creatures.
I again bowed in homage to the almighty
power of a Supreme Being.
THE NATIONAL
DISH,
The table was laid. And now the
smell
')f old German cookery rose gay,
Ah, blessed be thou, my sour kraut —
Thy scent to me is a nosegay " I