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ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 4. THE DYING ONE by HEINRICH HEINE

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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