HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories

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THE LINN^AN AND THE FEMININE
CLASSIFICATIONS.
My French had grown rusty since
the battle of Waterloo, but after halfan-hour's
conversation with a pretty
flower-girl in the Passage de I'Op^ra it
soon flowed fluently again. I managed
to stammer forth gallant phrases in
broken French, and explained to the
little charmer the Linnsean system, in
which flowers are classified according to
their stamens. The little one practised
a different system, and divided flowers
into those which smell pleasantly and
those which smell unpleasantly. I believe
that she applied a similar classification
to men.
UHLAND.
His Pegasus was a knightly steed
that gladly trotted back to the past,
but obstinately refused to budge when
urged forward into modern life; and
so our worthy Uhland smilingly dismounted,
quietly unsaddled the unruly
steed, and led it back to the stable.
There it remains to this very day; like
Its colleague, the famous war-horse
Bayard, it possesses all possible virtues,
and one only fault; it is dead.