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LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 61 by HEINRICH HEINE

First Line: ALL NIGHT IN VISION BEHOLD I THEE
Last Line: AND THE WORD IS FORGOTTEN COMPLETELY.
Subject(s): EYES; GRIEF; NIGHT; TEARS; SORROW; SADNESS; BEDTIME;

ALL night in vision behold I thee,
And see thee greeting me kindly;
And loudly weeping then throw I me
Before thy sweet feet blindly.

With sorrowing looks thou stand'st in my view,
Thy fair locks mournfully shaking;
While teardrops bright of pearly hue
From thy dear eyes are breaking.

A gentle word thou dost secretly say,
And givest a cypress-wreath sweetly;
I awake, and the wreath has vanish'd away,
And the word is forgotten completely.



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