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 | 'Twixt Kiss and Lip or Under the Sword. By the author of "Women Must Weep," [i.e. F. W. O. Ward] Third edition |  |
KAISER FRIEDRICH.
The blood is shed, the awful offering made,
Which gave an empire new its costly seed,
To flower and fruit in many a glorious deed,
When honour called and duty sternly bade;
Now let the bird build in the arméd shade
Of silent guns, and step the battle steed
To better triumphs of the conquering spade,
And harvests golden for a nation's need.
Which gave an empire new its costly seed,
To flower and fruit in many a glorious deed,
When honour called and duty sternly bade;
Now let the bird build in the arméd shade
Of silent guns, and step the battle steed
To better triumphs of the conquering spade,
And harvests golden for a nation's need.
The Kaiser Friedrich reigns, who fain would fight
More peaceful frays, that never bosom shook
With fear, and but from toiler burdens took;
He seeks to govern with the gentle might
Of love, that knows no other law than right,
And turns the slaying sword a reaper's hook.
More peaceful frays, that never bosom shook
With fear, and but from toiler burdens took;
He seeks to govern with the gentle might
Of love, that knows no other law than right,
And turns the slaying sword a reaper's hook.
| 'Twixt Kiss and Lip or Under the Sword. By the author of "Women Must Weep," [i.e. F. W. O. Ward] Third edition | |