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HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories

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Wrecked<br />

Hope and love! everything shattered<br />

And I myself, like a corpse<br />

That the growling sea has cast up,<br />

I lie on the strand,<br />

On the barren cold strand.<br />

Before me surges the waste of waters,<br />

Behind me lies naught but grief and misery;<br />

And above me, march the clouds,—<br />

The formless, gray daughters of the air.<br />

Who from the sea, in buckets of mist.<br />

Draw the water,<br />

And laboriously drag and drag it,<br />

And spill it again in the sea—<br />

A melancholy, tedious task.<br />

And useless as my own life.<br />

The waves murmur, the sea-mews scream.<br />

Old recollections possess me;<br />

Forgotten dreams, banished visions,<br />

Tormentingly sweet, uprise.<br />

There lives a woman in the North,<br />

A beautiful woman, royally beautiful.<br />

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