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THE FIR TREE by HEINRICH HEINE

First Line: A FIR TREE STANDS SO LONELY
Last Line: ON A BURNING CLIFF MUST STAND.
Subject(s): FIR TREES; TREES;
A fir-tree stands so lonely
On barren northern height.
Drowsy it grows; the snowdrift
Has wrought it a mantle white.

It dreams of a distant palm-tree,
That in some eastern land
Alone, in silence mourning,
On a burning cliff must stand.



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