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NEW SPRING: 35 by HEINRICH HEINE

First Line: CARE NOT, IF MY LOVE I'M TELLING
Last Line: BUT BELIEVES THEM POETRY.
Subject(s): BEAUTY; FLOWERS; LOVE;

CARE not, if my love I'm telling
Unto all the world around,
When my mouth, thy beauty praising,
Full of metaphor is found.

Anderneath a wood of flowers
Lies, in shelter safe below,
All that deep and glowing secret,
All that deep and secret glow.

If suspicious sparks should issue
From the roses, -- fearless be!
This dull world in flames believes not,
But believes them poetry.



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