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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONG, by HEINRICH HEINE Poet's Biography
First Line: My heart, my heart is heavy
Last Line: I wish he would shoot me dead!
Subject(s): Grief; Soldiers; Sorrow; Sadness
First Line: My heart, my heart is heavy
Last Line: I wish he would shoot me dead!
Subject(s): Grief; Soldiers; Sorrow; Sadness
MY heart, my heart is heavy,
Though merrily blooms the May;
Out on the ancient bastion,
Under the lindens I stay.
There stands by yon gray old tower,
The sentry-house of the town;
A red clad peasant soldier
Goes pacing up and down.
He toys with his shining musket,
That gleams in the sunset red,
Presenting and shouldering arms now, --
I wish he would shoot me dead!
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