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

By Fir-tree

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,

That in some eastern land

Alone, in silence mourning,

On a burning cliff must stand.