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From yonder bird a lesson borrow :

Encaged, bereft of both his eyes,

Yet lives he on-lives on in sorrow,

And hark, how sweet a song he tries!

Now-wouldst thou treat him more unkindly--
Go near and cut the captive's wings :

He lives, he hops his prison blindly,
Only a sadder strain he sings.

And so 'twill fare with me, thy lover;
Robbed of the vision I held dear,

Too weak upon my wings to hover,
Yet I shall live-O never fear!

And so some ditty broken-hearted

I'll sing, to serve my turn instead

Of pinions clipped and light departed:

I shall survive-be comforted!

7. G. SEIDL.-Abschied.

THE HEART.

Two chambers hath the heart;

Within them

Dwell Joy and Grief apart.

When Joy wakes in her own,

In the other

Grief slumbers on alone.

O Joy, precaution take!

Speak gently,

Lest Grief perchance should wake!

HERM. NEUMANN.-Das Herz.

PRAYER DURING BATTLE.

FATHER, I call on thee!

Closer the cannon-clouds gather and thicken,

Leaping athwart them the red flashes quicken;

Ruler of hosts, I call on thee!

Almighty, lead thou me!

Almighty, lead thou me!

To death, or victory-thine to decide it

Thine the arbitrament, mine to abide it;

Whither thou willest, lead thou me!

God, I acknowledge thee!

God, I acknowledge thee!

As in the murmur through summer-woods stealing, So in the thunder through battle-fields pealing,

I can alike acknowledge thee,

Father, look down on me!

Father, look down on me!

Into thy hand my soul I deliver;

Thou canst retake it, thou art the giver :
In life, in death, look down on me!

Father, I honour thee!

Father, I honour thee!

This is no struggle for plunder and booty;

Drawn are our swords at the summons of duty;

Victor, or slain, I honour thee.

My God, accept thou me !

My God, accept thou me!

When Death shall hail me with thunder-greeting,

When from my bosom the life is fleeting,

Then, O my God, accept thou me!

Father, I call on thee !

KÖRNER.-Gebet während der Schlacht

'Killed, fighting for his country, near Gadebusch, August 26,

1813, in his 22nd year.

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