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LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 35 by HEINRICH HEINE

First Line: A LONELY FIR TREE IS STANDING
Last Line: IN SILENT SORROW DOTH STAND.
Subject(s): FIR TREES; TREES;

ALONELY fir tree is standing
On a northern barren height;
It sleeps, and the ice and snow-drift
Cast round it a garment of white.

It dreams of a slender palm-tree,
Which far in the Eastern land
Beside a precipice scorching
In silent sorrow doth stand.



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