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NEW SPRING: 26 by HEINRICH HEINE

First Line: HOW THE PINKS ARE BREATHING FRAGRANCE
Last Line: AND THE NIGHTINGALES ARE SINGING.
Subject(s): BIRDS; FLOWERS; NIGHTINGALES; ROSES; SPRING;

HOW the pinks are breathing fragrance!
How the thronging stars so tender,
Golden bee like, sadly glimmer
'Mid the heaven's blue-violet splendour!

Through the gloom of yonder chestnuts
Gleams the manse, so white and stately,
And I hear the glass door rattling
While the dear voice thrills me greatly.

Sweet alarm and blissful tremor,
Soft embraces, terror-bringing --
And the youthful rose is list'ning,
And the nightingales are singing.



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