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From: martillo@mit-trillian.MIT.EDU (Yakim Martillo)
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Subject: Re: lammenkatz
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Date: Fri, 4-Jul-86 18:11:23 EDT
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In article <257@sunybcs.UUCP> colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) writes:
>Years ago I read a poem about a creature called a "lammenkatz," or maybe
>it was a "katzenlamm." I don't remember the author.  I've tried the
>collected works of C. Morgenstern and of B. Brecht, but no cigar.  Can
>anybody help?
>-- 
>Col. G. L. Sicherman
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Perhaps you mean Katzenjammer.  It's a great poem by Heinrich Heine.

Diese graue Wolkenschar
stieg aus einem Meer von Freuden;
heute musz ich dafuer leiden,
dasz ich gestern gluecklich war

Ach, im Wermut hat verkehrt
sich der Nektar!  Ach, wie quaelend
Katzen-Jammer, Hundeelend
Herz und Magen mir beschwert!


The rhyming is rather interesting.  Apparently Heine like Goethe does
not use a Hochdeutsch vowel-sound system.

eu == ei
e == ae

The latter is used in modern high German but I have been told that in
correct Buehneausrache these sounds should  not be identical.

Joachim Carlo Santos Martllo Ajami