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HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories

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like a great German tom-cat playing<br />

with a mouse before strangling it.<br />

SUCCESS IX<br />

LITERATURE.<br />

To dare is the secret of success in<br />

literature, as well as in revolution and<br />

in love.<br />

IN<br />

SPRING.<br />

The sun moves all too slowly, and I<br />

yearn to whip his fire-horses to a wilder<br />

career. But when he sinks hissing into<br />

the sea, and great Xight arises with her<br />

longing eye, oh! then true joy quivers<br />

through me, the evening breezes play<br />

about my beating heart like fondling<br />

maidens, and the stars beckon me, and<br />

I arise and soar forth over the little<br />

earth and the little thoughts of men.<br />

<strong>HEINE</strong>'S<br />

BIRTHPLACE.<br />

I first saw the light of the world by<br />

the side of that beautiful stream on

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