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HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories

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Heinrich Heine<br />

gems of the Book of Songs and he recorded 1<br />

impressions of this popular collection in a poem tl<br />

bore the German tide Buch der Lieder:<br />

Be these the selfsame verses<br />

That once when I was young<br />

Charmed me with dancing magic<br />

To love their foreign tongue.<br />

Delicate buds of passion.<br />

Gems of a master's art.<br />

That broke forth rivalling Nature<br />

In love-songs of the heart;<br />

Like fresh leaves of the woodland<br />

Whose trembling screen would house<br />

The wanton birdies courting<br />

Upon the springing boughs?<br />

Alas, how now they are wither'd!<br />

And fallen from the skies<br />

In yellowy tawny crumple<br />

Their tender wreckage lies.<br />

And all their ravisht beauty<br />

Strewn 'neath my feet today<br />

Rustles as I go striding<br />

Upon my wintry way.<br />

Ohve Schreiner, the South-African writer,<br />

peatedly asserted that Heine's grave was for her<br />

most sacred spot in Europe. Shelley and Heine w<br />

the two poets who meant most to her, even as tl<br />

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