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Heine, Heinrich - The North Sea - Thalatta
Identifier
013400
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
Poems Selected from Heinrich Heine – by Kate Freiligrath Kroeker
From the North Sea
Oh how I have languished in dreary exile!
Like unto a withered flower
In the botanist's capsule of tin
My heart lay dead in my breast
Methought I was prisoned a long sad winter
A sick man kept in a darkened chamber
And now I suddenly leave it
And outside meets me the dazzling Spring
Tenderly verdant and sun awakened
And rustling trees shed snowy petals
And tender young flowers gaze on me
With their bright fragrant eyes
And the air is full of laughter and gladness
And rich with the breath of blossoms
And in the blue sky the birds are singing
Thalata! Thalatta!