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HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories

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Thou valiant, retreating heart.<br />

How oft, how bitter oft<br />

Did the fair barbarians of the North press thee hard!<br />

From their large victorious eyes<br />

They darted burning shafts<br />

With crooked, polished words,<br />

They threatened to cleave my breast.<br />

With sharp-pointed missives they shattered<br />

% poor, stunned brain.<br />

In vain I held up against them my shield.<br />

The arrows whizzed, the strokes cracked.<br />

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