Works - 1906 Author:Heinrich Heine Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: (keagmknt.) From your brow remove the laurel, Where the leaves too long have hung ; With my words, Beer, do not quarrel, Hear the stammerings of my tongue.... more » Yes, I stammer every time I address the man sublime, Whose high genius reaches levels In which every listener revels, And whose fame's a master-work No mere casual, happy quirk Of good fortune, which may come In their sleep unsought, to some To such slovens in their art As Eossini or Mozart. No, our master dear may vaunt it Tis a fact, and he may flaunt it He created all the fame That attaches to his name. By his strength of will 'twas wrought : By his knowledge and his thought, By political intriguing, Calculations long, fatiguing. And his monarch, his protector Made him general director Of our music; and, in fine, Gave him power . . . Over what I hereby humbly claim as mine. IT IS USUALLY DONE. " The pancakes which I have hitherto given for three silver groschen, I will give in future for two. It is usually done." As if cast in bronze, in memory stays An advertisement which, in bygone days, On a news-sheet happened to catch my eyes In Prussia's capital, learned and wise. Berlin in Prussia! Town I love ! Your fame will blossom eternal and prove Forever fresh, like your lindens green Are the winds that torment them still as keen ? And what of the Zoo ? Is a beast still there Who sits by his wife with golden hair, And drinks pale ale as he did of old, Where morals are good, and cups are cold ? Berlin in Prussia, what are you doing ? What idler to-day is your laughter wooing ? Your Nante had not yet appeared in my time, And the only wits you considered prime Were Herr Wisotzki; a humour pleasant Had the Crown Prince, too, your King at present. ...« less