Heinrich Heine (1799-1856). Fir-tree. Margarete Munsterberg, ed., trans. 1916. A Harvest of German Verse

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Margarete Münsterberg, ed., trans. A Harvest of German Verse. 1916.

Fir-tree

By Heinrich Heine (1799–1856)


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,	5
That in some eastern land
Alone, in silence mourning,
On a burning cliff must stand.