A captive at Carlsruhe and other German prison camps, with numerous illustrations by the author . te ; the merchant his,gains, and the old peasants the walnut treiin whose shadow they played as . The whole land becomes a mightyarmoury . . they hammer, hammer,hammer, day and night. Dying Soldier : Do you not hear thethunder of Wielands hammer ? The ringingarmour of the Valkyries ? Do you not hearthe hoof-beats of their stallions ? Second Soldier : Yea, rivers and fields,mountains and woods dream anew theirGerman dreams. . Silently the womenoffer up their beauty . . the park of rosesb
A captive at Carlsruhe and other German prison camps, with numerous illustrations by the author . te ; the merchant his,gains, and the old peasants the walnut treiin whose shadow they played as . The whole land becomes a mightyarmoury . . they hammer, hammer,hammer, day and night. Dying Soldier : Do you not hear thethunder of Wielands hammer ? The ringingarmour of the Valkyries ? Do you not hearthe hoof-beats of their stallions ? Second Soldier : Yea, rivers and fields,mountains and woods dream anew theirGerman dreams. . Silently the womenoffer up their beauty . . the park of rosesbecomes the potato patch. The savant ishis own servant. The mother can no longer THE HOMELAND 79 mother her child. Work puts out the torchof love . . but all bear this . . they bearit for the sake of the blood which flowed fortheir sake. Soldier : I die ... I die happy.[He dies.] Ahasueeus : 0 Fate ! This moment out-weighs all my two thousand years of am reconciled with my sorrow, in that thecenturies have spared me to behold themighty heroism of this people. [Curtain.]. ONE OP OUR ORCHESTRA,
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