Heidelberg
This topaz city,
Crystallized from green eddys
Of Neckar and forest,
Has sung songs
Not in "The Student Prince"
To two men of my house.
Step-sliding lullabys
And night drummings
Of terror to one;
Minor-keyed love lieder
And dissonant flute melancholies
To the next.
Die Hauptstrasse
Is torn up now
By Jackhammers
and great ditchdiggers,
Its rusty pipes
On the surgeon's slab
Like clogged veins
Of an old man
Who was not always kind
To his children.
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