‘Belsazer’, a ballad by H. Heine included in the Buch der Lieder, ‘Junge Leiden’, No. X of the subdivision ‘Romanzen’. It recounts in terse couplets the fate of Belshazzar as given in Daniel 5. The first edition used the spelling Belsatzar.
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‘Belsazer’, a ballad by H. Heine included in the Buch der Lieder, ‘Junge Leiden’, No. X of the subdivision ‘Romanzen’. It recounts in terse couplets the fate of Belshazzar as given in Daniel 5. The first edition used the spelling Belsatzar.
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