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Two Heinrich Heine Poems in Translation

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Questions

By the sea, by the wild nocturnal sea

stands a young man,

his breast full of sighs, his head full of doubts,

and with melancholy lips, he asks the waves:

"O solve for me the riddle,

the agonizing age-old riddle,

over which by now so many heads have pondered:

heads in hieroglyphic caps,

heads in turbans and black berets,

heads in wigs and thousands of other

poor perspiring mortal heads -

tell me, what is the meaning of Man?

Where did he come from? Where is he heading?

Who lives above there among the golden stars?"

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John Kendall Hawkins is an American ex-pat freelance journalist and poet currently residing in Oceania.

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