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Heine, Heinrich - The North Sea - Stay thou below in thy ocean depths
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002634
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Poems Selected from Heinrich Heine – by Kate Freiligrath Kroeker
From the North Sea
Stay thou below in thy ocean depths
Delirious dream
That once, ah many a night
Hast tormented my heart with false happiness
And today, as Sea Phantom
Doth threaten me even in broad daylight
Stay thou below, for ever and ever
And I will throw down to thee still
All my anguish and sin
And the foolscap of folly
Which has jingled long time round my head
And the cold glittering snake skin
Of hypocrisy
Which was coiled long time round my soul
…..
Yoho! Yoho! Here comes the wind!
Hoist up the sails! They flap and they swell!
O'er the calmly fatal expanse
The good ship flies
And, delivered, the Soul shouts exulting