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The Letter of Frederick III. to Prince Bismarck.
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The Letter of Frederick III. to Prince Bismarck.
“Not caring for the splendour of great deeds
And strife for glory, but with this content
That some day graven on my monument
The humblest child of Fatherland may read,
‘He who the glorious Kaiser did succeed
Was sworn to Peace—his rule beneficent,
He served his people, on their welfare bent
And sowed for generations hence Faith's seed.’”
And strife for glory, but with this content
That some day graven on my monument
The humblest child of Fatherland may read,
‘He who the glorious Kaiser did succeed
Was sworn to Peace—his rule beneficent,
He served his people, on their welfare bent
And sowed for generations hence Faith's seed.’”
Oh, by the palms and laurels 'neath the dome
Where rests before the dark-draped altar shrine
The warrior king who made a nation one,
Did father e'er beget a nobler son?
Had ever people, when their chief went home
A surer pledge of kingliness divine?
Where rests before the dark-draped altar shrine
The warrior king who made a nation one,
Did father e'er beget a nobler son?
Had ever people, when their chief went home
A surer pledge of kingliness divine?
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