. The life of Bismarck, private and political;. Gambrinus :And the neophyte so gaylyBrings the liquid sacrifices. While the battle-loving MavorsOpes the clanging doors of combat;Dost thou hear the clash of weapons ?Dost thou mark the shouts of contest ?Ha! how gleam the flashing sword-blades;With the tierce and carte resounding :As the hewer hews so fiercely,Hews, and his fellow-fighter heweth! Een then sped a slender red line(A red line of blood and iron),Through the life of our young heroGottingen, Berlin, and GreifswaldEclio deeds of noble daring, STUDENT LIFE. 125 Done in years that now ha
. The life of Bismarck, private and political;. Gambrinus :And the neophyte so gaylyBrings the liquid sacrifices. While the battle-loving MavorsOpes the clanging doors of combat;Dost thou hear the clash of weapons ?Dost thou mark the shouts of contest ?Ha! how gleam the flashing sword-blades;With the tierce and carte resounding :As the hewer hews so fiercely,Hews, and his fellow-fighter heweth! Een then sped a slender red line(A red line of blood and iron),Through the life of our young heroGottingen, Berlin, and GreifswaldEclio deeds of noble daring, STUDENT LIFE. 125 Done in years that now have fleeted; Days departed, days all old Ossian once out carolled.* When Bismarck came to Gottingen, as we have said, he hadnot the remotest notion of student life; its customs were all un-known to him, nor did he learn any thing of them immediately,as he there found no friend of any degree of intimacy. By a cer-tain Herr von Drenckhahn, whom he had formerly seen for ashort time, he was introduced to a circle of Mechlenburgers, who. belonged to no academical body, but passed a tolerably jolly these he travelled into the Harz, and on his return it wasagreed that the glories of real student life should be opened tohim. Bismarck gave his fellow-travellers a breakfast in celebra-tion of the journey, and here matters went on somewhat length somebody threw a bottle out of the window. Nextmorning the Dominus de Bismarck was cited to the Deanery, * It is again necessary to explain that the translation is as close as the translatorcan make, without violating sense and metre. The reader will find the original ofthis, and other interjected poems in the Appendices.—K. E. H. M. 126 CITED BEFORE THE DEAN. and, obedient to his academical superiors, he set forth on the came in a tall hat, a gay Berlin dressing-gown, and riding-boots, accompanied by his enormous dog. The Dean stared atthis fantastic garb, and only dared to pass the huge creaturewhen Bismarck
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