. Children's ballads from history and folklore . Once more in her narrow highways, Fearless children laughed and played,Once more from her oriel windowsLooked the happy-hearted maid. Then the Prince, th imperial envoy, Piccolomini, outspoke: We will have a day of feasting, O my fasting burgher-folk ! Very fit that liere, it seemeth,Here in Nuremberg the old. First of all our loyal cities Wherein news of peace is told, Very lit that blazing bonfire,Booming cannon, chiming bell. With their tongues of fire and ironBlessed years of peace foretell. As the Prince, so said the people. Glad they gathe

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. Children's ballads from history and folklore . Once more in her narrow highways, Fearless children laughed and played,Once more from her oriel windowsLooked the happy-hearted maid. Then the Prince, th imperial envoy, Piccolomini, outspoke: We will have a day of feasting, O my fasting burgher-folk ! Very fit that liere, it seemeth,Here in Nuremberg the old. First of all our loyal cities Wherein news of peace is told, Very lit that blazing bonfire,Booming cannon, chiming bell. With their tongues of fire and ironBlessed years of peace foretell. As the Prince, so said the people. Glad they gathered on that day —July day — in sixteen hundred Fifty — mark the year, I pray. For from ashes of wars fires Smoldering then upon the earth, Phcenix-like, the German NationDates her happy birth.

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