Love
Abroad, 3
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1908) · From New Poems: Abroad
Love
Of my fair fatherland I once was proud;
Beside the stream
The oak soar’d high, the violets gently bow’d;
It was a dream.
German the kisses were, in German too
(Sweet then did seem
The sound) they spake the words: “Yes, I love you!”--
It was a dream.
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Heine, Heinrich. “Abroad, 3.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/247/.
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Heine, Heinrich. “Abroad, 3.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/247/.
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