The world and life are too disjointed

Text by Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)

Translated into English by Joseph Massaad 

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The world is disjointed and life even more!
I shall approach the German professor.
He knows how to assemble life bit by bit,
And how to make a rational system of it.
With his night-caps and shreds of his robe
He plugs the holes in the heavenly globe.