Living
Garden at Heidelberg
From Works and Life, ed. Forster, vol. VIII (1876)
Living
Pill me the beaker!
Now, Rhine and Nekkar,
Health to ye both, ye noble streams!
Yours is a power,
To wing the hour
High above Wisdom's heavy dreams.
Germans! beer-drinking,
Tobacco-stinking,
Gladly, how gladly! I resign
All you are worth,
From south to north
For this fresh air and fragrant wine.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Garden at Heidelberg.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/686/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Garden at Heidelberg.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/686/.
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