Doctrine

By Heinrich Heine


Beat on the drum and have no fear,
And kiss the commissary cook!
That is the science in its whole.
That is the deepest sense of the books.

Drum all the people out of sleep,
Drum Reveille with a youthful leap,
March ever onward, drumming away,
That is the science in its whole.

That is Hegelian philosophy,
That is the sense that the books imbue!
And I comprehend it, because I'm so smart,
Because I'm a darn good drummer, too.



 Posted by permission of the translator ~ © 2005



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