C.D. Warner, et al., comp. The Library of the World’s Best Literature.
An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.
Atlas
By Heinrich Heine (17971856)
Translation of Charles Harvey Genung
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The whole great world of sorrow I am bearing;
I bear what is unbearable, and breaking
Is now my heart within me.
For happy thou wouldst be, supremely happy,
Else be supremely wretched, haughty heart;
And lo! now art thou wretched.