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THE NEW YEAR
P. J. WHALING
By MORRIS ROSENFELD
(Translated by Elbert Aidline.)
Again has conic the Scythman, the Mower grim and old,
Ret amine from the harvest where fields of life unfold.
Of one more year deprived me the march of Time severe
And eagerly awaits he to mow the newcome year.
fade in dusk or glow—
Ile cares not what rny fate is—to
His sole desire's to gather the thoughts and deeds I sow.
And Father Time is crushing to nothingness and night
All joys that he has brought me to make some moments bright
And this New Year has also by Time to me been brought,
And Time himself—I know it—will crush it, too, to naught.
Not only years and twelve-months—Sis centuries sans end
That Time himself gave birth to, himself has brought to end.
Extends his best
wishes for a Hap-
py and Prosper-
ous New Year to
all his Jewish
friends.
I shudder when reflecting, to ponder much I fear
Observing life's arrival that comes to . disappear.
What is the aim, the purpose, and where's the sense, I pray?
And what is life's beginning, and what—its mystic way?
Alas! what is this world, then, with men and minds sublime
But grass for Time the Mower, relentless Father Time?
And yet I'm not despondent, to all I must consent--
I dwell amidst the living, 'tin well, I am content.
Can Man, the slave, the reptile, who's made to creep, to crawl,
Divine Creator's purpose and grasp the sense of all?
And thus I join the chorus, and praise and know no fear.
With soul and heart exclaiming: "Oh, welcome, young New Year!"
Oh, welcome here, young New Year; and let thy sojourn be
A time of happy living, a time of joy and glee.
Let every day abound in most beautiful of dreams
And sweetest consolations in soothing, peaceful streams.
And though my life is fleeting, let joy increase, not wane,
And may it not be drowned in seas of tears and pain.
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Again, oh welcome, New Year, and bring us luck and mirth,
I may not see thy passing, although I see thy birth.
For but the present mine is, all's mystery ahead,
And who can tell when Crowns may choose to strike me dead?
Today I'm with the living; how long yet may I stay?
Perhaps this is my swan-song, my last and closing lay.
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me down," he said in his Reisebilder,
"its a brave soldier in the War of Lib-
eration for mankind," and it is dif-
ficult to imagine today his sudden,
complete revulsion of feeling when,
after the Battle of Leipzig (1813),
his country conk bock into militar.
ism. "For a year or two," eays the
Canibridge Modern History, "states-
men as well as poets thought that this
patriotic enthusias tit might nd per-
manent expression in a free, inde-
pendent and national German State.
quarter of a century which fol-
lowed the War of Liberation aots,
however, a period of disillusionment,
of hopes belied, promises broken, and
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reforms deferred." ''Whitt a singular
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ple just recovered from centuries of
political misery, just risen wit h one
accord to vindicate its honor and in-
dependence; anti the very moment the
foreign enemy is vanquished, the very
moment that the l o nged-for oppor-
tunity for a thorough national re -
construction has come, this same
people again falls a victim to its
hereditary lack of common conscious-
ness, and suffers the leaders in the
great struggle for freedom and unity
to be pushed aside." Or, as an Ameri-
can writer appositely says: "Bureau- 1
cracy reigned supreme, Government
put on the robes of the ("hunch, anti
the Jew fell back into the circle of
the social outcast." This was men's
crime against Heine, Germany's
crime against one of the greatest of
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her sons, that the cup of wial liber.
ty and religious equality, which he
had SO Is rdently desires! to drink, was
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h: t I I away front his lips as he was
lifting it. lie was just not emanci-
pated, not assimilated; just thrust
back into the uncongenial pursuits
which alone were open to a Jew; just
forbidden that boon of self-expres-
sion so especially coveted by a poet;
just shut out from a world that had
just been opened to him—from a
world in which he would have been
at borne. "It was a dream."
Heine, the convert to Lutheranisnt,
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English th e poet's answer to the po. who married his French
wife in a
catholic Church, win a Jew at heart
Ninety-nine years ago—on June
liticians—the uncomforted outcast's
28, 1825, to be precise—Heinrich reply to the harsh sentence of his till the end. Mr. Zangwill has chap-
Heine, student of Dusseldorf, formal- Government at home. There was ter and verse for the words which he
ly entered the Lutheran Church. Ile more in it than his resentment of , Puts in the poet's mouth: "A Jew II
gained nothing by his conversion, that sentence. "As one whom his' bast' always been . . . You know how
neither self-respect nor the respect mother comforteth . . . and in Jerus.: Germany treated the Jews—like pa-
beasts Judaism
of others, nor health, nor wealth, mor-
runs ! Halm and wild
alent ye shall be comforted,"
al or material, nor 'that content sur- the promise; and Ileine loved his' is not a religion, but a misfortune.
passing wealth" which a sage is said mother all the while. Front his sick , And to be born a Jew and a genius!
to have found in meditation. On the bed in Paris he used to write her What a double curse! Believe me, a
contrary, all his subsequent medita- cheery, deceitful letters, disguising , certificate of baptism was a necessary
tion (and life dragged on till 1856) the illness which was killing him •, nod, yard of admission to European cal-
lure." And, twain: "The brooding spir-
was in the mood of a deepening dis-
perhapa, the country which h e
content. And fate had other exclu- mourned in the lines which we now it of Israel breathes through me that
sions for the young Jew who had translate was not Germany only, but engendered the tender humor of her
chosen an alien faith. In 1831 he was Jerusalem—his mother, his mother- sages, the celestial fantasies of her
forbidden to enter Germany and in country and hi‘mother's creed. Any. saints. . .. Instead of singing of
fact, in his last quarter of a century, how, here is what he wrote: mermaids, I should have been buried
honorably in the House of Life, an d
he crossed the frontier twice only
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and by stealth; in 1835 a ban on his
son would have
I possessed a lovely Father- my
And what has Germany gained in a
writings was added to that on his "Once nl
hundred years by the anti-Semitism
person; the German Parliament or-
dered the suppression of the "Schrift- The oaken tree o tall, the violets which killed Heine, which deprived
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en P s de unter dem Namen des jung- Grewpeetp heire m. !hint of air and light, most drove him
en Deutsehlands bekannten litterar-
I out of the borders which he Invest?
was a drea
inches Schule, zu welcher namenlich It
It kiss'd me Germanwise, and Ger- Is it still worth her while to forget
Heinrich Heine and .. . gehoren."
, charity? (London Jewish Guardian.)
man (spoke
We may add these two facts to-
gether: Heine's self-appointed exile (You'll scarce believe
llo well it sounded), saying 'I love
Colonel Michael Friedsam, head of
from Judaism and his State-appointed
thee!'
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double exile from Germany—the man
It
was a dream."
purchased—for about $150,000—the
and his books by separate decrees ;
for the two make a whole worth in- And as a dream, when the sleeper famous portrait, "A Young Lady," by
vestigating on the eve of the hun- awakeneth, was his life as a Christian Domenico Ghirlandaio. This master-
dredth anniversary of that June day and in France. piece has been the possession of a
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two in an expression of Ileine's pri- together, poignant tragedy many years, and as it is very seldom
why that much his increas. that a portrait of Ghirlandaio appears
vate feelings, surging up from the
bottom of the well of truth by the of Heine? Not so
years , in the art market now, its sale and
pai n; the eight the par- transfer to America is considered an
force inherent in great poetry. We in fa te of mattress-grave,
blindness. important event in art circles.
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separated him physically from his
German mother and spiritually from
his French wife—the suffering which
only a poet could feel as intensely as
Heine felt it; which was a part, the
chief part, of the "grossen Schmer
zen" out of which his "kleine Liedcr"
were made, and which we, no admit-
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ted to a poet's experience, can but
conjecture from his piercing song.
That whisper of love in the night-
time, that speech in a tongue that
vans still, that kiss remembered after
death--surely, tot a poet's sensibil-
ity, surely to "namentlich Heinrich
Heine," these intangible possessions
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were the losses which really matter-
ed, as he gasped his slow life away.
"Dieu me pardonnera, c'est son me-
tier," they quote as his last record-
ed utterance; and this half-penitent,
half-zebellious shifting of the too.
heavy burden is the key to his apol-
ogia pro vita sun, and his explana-
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tion of the discords and the broken
chords which mock the melody of his
I verse. "Shall we leave to Him for
dually washed. The flat work is all beau-
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—is no repentance due on the other
side? Is Heine alone all to blame,
and le bon Dieu alone all to pardon,
or were there faults in a past mortal
generation, for which the presenr
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Heine grew up to Judaism in Ger-
many at the worst possible time for
that combination, and the remedy
did not lie with him. True, he sought,
not a remedy, but a way out, by his
act of apostasy in June, 1825; and
further ways out were forced upon
him by the decrees of 1831 and 1835.
But the real tragedy was, that the
remedy, not the way out, th e full,
remedy had
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been almost within his grasp. Ile
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hands as they closed round it, and
he was left clutching the shadow of
it between his fingers. What wonder
that he never recovered the serenity
of morning in the spring.
Such a golden morning seemed to
be breaking, in Dusseldorf when
Heine was a boy. The French oc-
cupation by Napoleon had brought
alleviation to the Jews and hope to
the Liberals. Heine's fvet school-
master was a French abbeyin what
was virtually a French bpsee.
grew up t early manhood, expecting
Germany's release from the bondage
the nar-
of "das Gemeins,"—from all
rowing restrictions which th e
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