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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 35, by HEINRICH HEINE Poet's Biography
First Line: A lonely fir tree is standing
Last Line: In silent sorrow doth stand.
Subject(s): Fir Trees; Trees
First Line: A lonely fir tree is standing
Last Line: In silent sorrow doth stand.
Subject(s): Fir Trees; Trees
ALONELY fir tree is standing
On a northern barren height;
It sleeps, and the ice and snow-drift
Cast round it a garment of white.
It dreams of a slender palm-tree,
Which far in the Eastern land
Beside a precipice scorching
In silent sorrow doth stand.
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