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LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 38 by HEINRICH HEINE

First Line: SINCE MY DARLING ONE HAS LEFT ME
Last Line: WELLNIGH BREAKS, I CANNOT WEEP.
Subject(s): LOVE - LOSS OF;

SINCE my darling one has left me,
Power of laughing is bereft me;
Blockheads fain would raise a joke,
But no laughter can provoke.

Since I've lost my darling one,
Power of weeping, too, is gone;
Though my heart with sorrow deep
Wellnigh breaks, I cannot weep.



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