Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 4. THE DYING ONE, by HEINRICH HEINE


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ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 4. THE DYING ONE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Flying after bliss and light
Last Line: O have pity, gracious lord!
Subject(s): Death; Germany; Home; Dead, The; Germans


FLYING after bliss and light,
Thou return'st in piteous plight;
German truth and German shirt
Strangers draggle through the dirt.

Pale as death hast thou become,
But take comfort, thou'rt at home;
Warm as by the household hearth
Lie we under German earth.

Many others, who fell lame,
Home again, alas! ne'er came,
Though they yearningly implored, --
O have pity, gracious Lord!





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