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Heine, Heinrich - The North Sea - Lurid the thunderstorm lies on the ocean
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002633
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
Poems Selected from Heinrich Heine – by Kate Freiligrath Kroeker
From the North Sea
Lurid the thunderstorm lies on the ocean
And through the banks of black cloud
Flashes the red forked lightning
Swift blazing forth and as swift disappearing
Like wit from the head of Kronian
Over the drearily restless waters
Solemnly rolls the thunder
Whereat leap on high the white sea horses
Which Boreas himself has begotten
With the light bounding mares of Erichthon
And scared the sea birds silently flutter
Like spectral phantoms from Styx
Whom Charon repulsed from his shadowy boat