Love
Lyrical Intermezzo, 35
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1908) · From Book of Songs: Lyrical Intermezzo
Love
A lonely fir tree is standing
On a northern barren height;
It sleeps, and the ice and snow-drift
Cast round it a garment of white.
It dreams of a slender palm-tree,
Which far in the Eastern land
Beside a precipice scorching
In silent sorrow doth stand.
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Heine, Heinrich. “Lyrical Intermezzo, 35.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/126/.
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Heine, Heinrich. “Lyrical Intermezzo, 35.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/126/.
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