HIGH deeds, O Germans, are to come from you! Thus in your books the record shall be found, "A watchword was pronounced, a potent sound -- ARMINIUS! -- all the people quaked like dew Stirred by the breeze; they rose, a Nation, true, True to herself -- the mighty Germany, She of the Danube and the Northern Sea, She rose, and off at once the yoke she threw. All power was given her in the dreadful trance; Those new-born Kings she withered like a flame." -- Woe to them all! but heaviest woe and shame To that Bavarian who could first advance His banner in accursed league with France, First open traitor to the German name! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IN HOSPITAL: 23. MUSIC by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY LONGFELLOW by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY SONNETS FOR PICTURES: A VENETIAN PASTORAL (BY GIOGIONE) by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI SONG, FR. THE TWO GENTELEM OF VERONA by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE |