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HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories

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^dnt. 123<br />

booth closed where ye used so often to<br />

take delight in the puppet-play of my<br />

wit.<br />

IMMORTALITY.<br />

God has made no revelation pointing<br />

to a life beyond the grave; even<br />

Moses tells us nothing about it, God is<br />

perhaps not quite pleased that the<br />

pious feel so firmly persuaded of a<br />

future life. In his Fatherly kindness<br />

he wishes perhaps to give us a surprise.<br />

WHERE ?<br />

Where shall once the wanderer weary<br />

^ Meet his resting-place and shrine?<br />

Under palm-trees by the Ganges ?<br />

Under lindens of the Rhine ?<br />

Shall I somewhere in the desert<br />

Owe my grave to stranger hands ?<br />

Or upon some lonely sea-shore<br />

Rest at last beneath the sands ?<br />

Tis no matter ! God's wide heaven<br />

Must surround me there as here ;<br />

And as death-lamps o'er me swinging<br />

Night by night the stars burn clear.

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