This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1836 edition. Excerpt: ...which for us is now praying so kindly, Each heart we may break that loves us so blindly, Aid and support them. Almighty God! Rush on! our prayers are now ascended, Now our hopes are in the skies; Things of earth are henceforth ended, Heavenly objects now arise. Advance the flag that floats unfurl'd, Each ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1836 edition. Excerpt: ...which for us is now praying so kindly, Each heart we may break that loves us so blindly, Aid and support them. Almighty God! Rush on! our prayers are now ascended, Now our hopes are in the skies; Things of earth are henceforth ended, Heavenly objects now arise. Advance the flag that floats unfurl'd, Each foeman's groan is freedom's cry; We'll meet again--farewell this world--'Tis hell to yield--'tis heaven to die! Hark, hark! how against us the cannons are roaring; On, brothers, on! mid the death-rain that's pouring, We'll meet in a far brighter sky! The deeds of courage and the brilliant conflicts in which the corps of Liitzow were engaged, it is unnecessary to detail here; it is sufficient to say, that its prowess, and that of its gallant Lieutenant Korner, gained for it a name which will long live in the annals of Germany, and fully entitled it to the poet's denomination of " Liitzow's wilde ver-wegeme Jagd" Korner, having received a severe wound, rejoined the corps of Liitzow only a few days previous to its being called to intercept a French convoy of ammunition and provisions. The combat happened near a wood, about half a league from Rosenberg, and in this wood, where the troops had halted for a couple of hours, the poet wrote his last lyric, " The Sword." It was written on a blank leaf of his pocket-book, and he was reading it to his companions when the trumpet sounded for the attack. The enemy, although more numerous than at first imagined, fled after a short encounter, into the neighbouring coppice in front of a wood. Among those who pursued them, was the poet; and here he met the death of which he so long had a presentiment, and had also so frequently and so enthusiastically lauded in his poems. The TiraU-leures finding themselves safe...
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Add this copy of Germany in Mdcccxxxi, Volume 1 to cart. $56.97, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2010 by Nabu Press.
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