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HEINRICH
HEINE
"God's satire weighs on me.
The great author of the universe, the Aristophanes of Heaven, was bent on
demonstrating, with crushing force, to me, the little, earthly, German
Aristophanes, how my wittiest sarcasm are only pitiful attempts at jesting
in comparison with His, and how miserably I am beneath Him in humour, in
colossal mockery."
(Pinney,
1963)
God has
made our eyes a pair,
So we’d
see clear everywhere
To believe
all that we read
Just one
eye would fill the need.
Two eyes
did God give likewise
So we’d
look and gape and stare
At the
world He made so fair
As a feast
for all man’s eyes;
(Draper,
1982, 799)
Faulting
the Creator’s not a
Thing
befitting, as if clay
Would be
wiser than the potter!
(Ibid,
801)
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