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First Line: Oh, he whose pain means life, whose life means
Last Line: He knows me quite, and feels what I must feel.
Alternate Author Name(s): Maximilian, Karl August Georg; Platten Hallermund, Graf Von


Oh, he whose pain means life, whose life means pain
May feel again what I have felt before;
Who has beheld his bliss above him soar
And, when he sought it, fly away again;

Who in a labyrinth has tried in vain,
When he has lost his way, to find a door,
Whom love has singled out for nothing more
Than with despondency his soul to bane;

Who begs cach lightning for a deadly stroke,
Each stream to drown the heart that cannot heal
From all the cruel stabs by which it broke,

Who does begrudge the dead their beds like steel
Where they are safe from love's beguiling yoke--
He knows me quite, and feels what I must feel.





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