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. 1858 Excerpt: ...here. Know, literature in Saxony Has long been duly rated; Each useful branch being happily And fitly cultivated. Here works of art successfully Are daily prosecuted; And in no part of Germany More ably executed. The Saxons are in general, (A fact indeed restating, ) For industry proverbial, --Contentment still ...
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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. 1858 Excerpt: ...here. Know, literature in Saxony Has long been duly rated; Each useful branch being happily And fitly cultivated. Here works of art successfully Are daily prosecuted; And in no part of Germany More ably executed. The Saxons are in general, (A fact indeed restating, ) For industry proverbial, --Contentment still creating. And minor features various, Conjoined, importance raise; But time, like rhyme imperious, Forbids all further praise. MINOR GERMAN STATES. The minor states of Germany We'll visit next in order; Resolved all fair and great to see, Within its spacious border. The Grand-duchy of Ba'den must Receive our first attention, --'Tween Wirt'emberg and Rhine we just Behold its full extension. This long was a Margra'viate, . Unused to novel changements, Till yielding, at a modern date, To Bonaparte's arrangements. Into a Grand-duehy was, then,1 This famous portion formed, --Divided into circles ten, Each by fair traits adorned. These circles apropos we'll name, --Lo Dan'ube, Lake, and Wei'sen, Murg, Kin'zig, Nec'kar, Entz,2 and Main, With Ol'denwald and Trei'sam. Its fairest towns we'll mention here, As suits our rhyme the order, --Promiscu'sly these shall appear To the precise regardcr. Famed Carls'ruhe,3 seat of government, Our muse meantime engages, Where buildings most magnificent Still fascinate who gazes. The ducal palace, regally Commands still strict attention--With structures more, where masonry Disputed not dimension. Next claiming care, see fair Man'heim', And Frei'burg, of importance, 1 In 1809. 2 Pfuiz-and-Entz. 3 Pr. Karls-roo. With Ba'den,1 noted in th' extreme, Then Hei'delberg and Con'stance. More than five thousand2 square miles, know, This territory con tain eth; And then one million3 souls, or so, The number it sustaineth; And each sect here...
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