HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories

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though the learning of it is no child's^
play. For we poor Germans, as if we
were not already sufficiently plagued by
billeting, military service, poll-tax,
and a thousand other taxes, must forsooth,
burden ourselves with Adelung, *
and torment one another with the accusative
and the dative.
NAPOLEON AT ST.
HELENA.
The Emperor is dead. On a waste
island in the Atlantic Ocean is his
lonely grave; and he for whom the
world was too narrow lies quietly under
a little hillock, where five weeping
willows hang their green heads, and a
little brook, murmuring sorrowfully,
ripples by. There is no inscription on
his tomb; but Clio, with a just pen,
has written thereon invisible words,
which will resound, like spirit-tones,
through thousands of years.
CHOICE OF A
PROFESSION.
A man should become either a handicraftsman
or a philologist; breeches
will be required in all ages, and there
will always be schoolboys in need of declensions
and conjugations.
* Author of a German Dictionary in five TOlumes,