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LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 22 by HEINRICH HEINE

First Line: THOU SCARCELY COULD'ST HAVE FORGOTTEN IT FASTER
Last Line: THAT BOTH WERE GREAT, FULL WELL I KNOW.
Subject(s): HEARTS; LOVE;
THOU scarcely could'st have forgotten it faster,
That I of thine heart so long was the master;
Thine heart so false, so small, and so sweet,
A sweeter and falser I never shall meet.

Thou now hast forgotten the love and disaster
That made my heart throb all the faster;
I know not if love was the greatest, or woe;
That both were great, full well I know.



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