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First Line: High deeds, o germans, are to come from you
Last Line: First open traitor to the german name!
Subject(s): Germany


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!





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