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Thursday 28 June 2012

The Spruce Tree - Heinrich Heine

A single spruce-tree, lonely,
On a northern mountain height,
Sleeps in a white blanket,
Draped in snow and ice.

His dreams are of a palm-tree,
Who, far in eastern lands,
Weeps, all alone and silent,
Among the burning sands.

Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (1797 – 1856) Germany
Translated by A. S. Kline
Source: Poetry in Translation

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