Love
The Return Home, 47
Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring (1908) · From Pictures of Travel: The Return Home (1823-24)
Love
The monarch Wiswamitra,
Is restlessly striving now;
He must needs, by fighting and penance,
Obtain Wasischta’s cow.
O monarch Wiswamitra,
O what an ox art thou,
To have all this fighting and penance,
And all for nought but a cow!
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Heine, Heinrich. “The Return Home, 47.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/401/.
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Heine, Heinrich. “The Return Home, 47.” Translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heine/401/.
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