At Lützen, in the meadow, he kept up such a strife, That many thousand Frenchmen there yielded up their life; On the water, at Katzbach, his oath was in trim: The Germans are joyful: they're shouting hurrah! At Wartburg, on the Elbe, how he cleared him a path! Neither fortress nor town barred the French from his wrath; Like hares o'er the field they all scuttled away, While behind them the hero rang out his Huzza! And here are the Germans: juchheirassassa! The Germans are joyful: they're shouting hurrah! At Leipzig-O glorious fight on the plain! French luck and French might strove against him in vain; Then sound, blaring trumpets! Hussars, charge once more! To the Rhine, over Rhine, in your triumph advance! G PATRIOTIC SONG OD, who gave iron, purposed ne'er That man should be a slave: Therefore He gave him fiery mood, That he might fearlessly the feud Maintain through life and death. Therefore will we what God did say, And ne'er a fellow-creature slay, But he shall fall by stroke of brand And not inherit German land With men of German name. O Germany, bright fatherland! O German love, so true! Thou sacred land, thou beauteous land, But we will to the battle all Revenge shall be our meed. Flash forth, flash forth, whatever can, Your hands lift upward to the sky- Let sound, let sound, whatever can, With hangman's and with Frenchmen's blood That to all Germans soundeth good— Day of our great desire! Let wave, let wave, whatever can, Here will we purpose, man for man, We'll gain us freedom's victory, Or freedom's death we'll die! EDWIN ARNOLD (1832-1904) DWIN ARNOLD, a favorite English poet and Oriental scholar, showed his skill in smooth and lucid verse early in life. In 1852, when twenty years of age, he won the Newdigate Prize at Oxford for a poem, 'The Feast of Belshazzar.' Two years later, after graduation with honors, he was named second master of Edward the Sixth's School at Birmingham; and, a few years subsequent, principal of the Government Sanskrit College at Poona, in India. In 1856 he published Griselda, a Tragedy'; and after his return to London in 1861, translations from the Greek of Herodotus and the Sanskrit of the Indian classic 'Hitopadeça,' the latter under the name of 'The Book of Good Counsels.' There followed from his pen Education in India'; 'A History of the Administration in India under the Late Marquis of Dalhousie' (1862-64); and The Poets of Greece,' a collection of fine passages (1869). In addition to his other labors he became one of the editors-in-chief of the London Daily Telegraph. of Saturated with the Orient, familiar with every aspect of its civilization, moral and religious life, history and feeling, Sir Edwin's literary work attested his knowledge in a large number smaller poetical productions, and a group of religious epics of long and impressive extent. Chiefest among them ranks that on the life and teachings of Buddha, The Light of Asia; or, The Great Renunciation' (1879). It has passed through more than eighty editions in this country, and almost as many in England. In recognition of this work Mr. Arnold was decorated by the King of Siam with the Order of the White Elephant. Two years after its appearance he published 'Mahâbhârata,' 'Indian Idylls,' and in 1883, 'Pearls of the Faith; or, Islam's Rosary: Being the Ninety-nine Beautiful Names of Allah, with Comments in Verse from Various Oriental Sources.' In 1886 the Sultan conferred on him the Imperial Order of Osmanli, and in 1888 he was created Knight Commander of the Indian Empire by Queen Victoria. 'Sa'di in the Garden; or, The Book of Love' (1888), a poem turning on a part of the 'Bôstâni' of the Persian poet Sa'di, brought Sir Edwin the Order of the Lion and Sun from the Shah of Persia. In 1888 he published also 'Poems National and Non-Oriental.' After that he produced The Light of the World'; 'Potiphar's Wife, and Other Poems (1892); The Iliad and Odyssey of Asia,' and in prose, 'India Revisited' (1891); 'Seas and Lands'; 'Japonica,' which treats of life and things Japanese; and Adzuma the Japanese Wife: a Play in Four Acts' (1893). During his travels in Japan the Emperor decorated him with the Order of the Rising Sun. The Tenth Muse and Other Poems) appeared in 1895, East and West) in 1896, (The Voyage of Ithobal› in 1901. The Queen's Justice (1899) was dedicated to his Japanese wife.. He died in March, 1904. 'The Light of Asia,' the most successful of his works, attracted instant attention on its appearance, as a novelty of rich Indian local color. In substance it is a graceful and dramatic paraphrase of the mass of more or less legendary tales of the life and spiritual career of the Buddha, Prince Gautama, and a summary of the principles of the great religious system originating with him. It is lavishly embel lished with Indian allusions, and expresses incidentally the very spirit of the East. In numerous cantos, proceeding from episode to episode of its mystical hero's career, its effect is that of a loftily ethical, picturesque, and fascinating biography, in highly polished verse. The metre selected is a graceful and dignified one, especially associated with Paradise Lost' and other of the foremost classics of English verse. Sir Edwin says of the poem in his preface, "I have sought, by the medium of an imaginary Buddhist votary, to depict the life and character and indicate the philosophy of that noble hero and reformer, Prince Gautama of India, the founder of Buddhism;" and the poet has admirably, if most flatteringly, succeeded. The poem has been printed in innumerable cheap editions as well as those de luxe; and while it has been criticized as too complaisant a study of even primitive Buddhism, it is beyond doubt a lyrical tract of eminent utility as well as seductive charm. THE YOUTH OF BUDDHA From The Light of Asia' HIS reverence TH Lord Buddha kept to all his schoolmasters, Albeit beyond their learning taught; in speech · In mimic contest scoured the palace courts: His half-won race because the laboring steeds Swept o'er his thoughts. And ever with the years Knew the young child of sorrow, pain, or tears, In the royal garden on a day of spring, A flock of wild swans passed, voyaging north Pointed his bow, and loosed a willful shaft Bright scarlet blood-gouts staining the pure plumes. Sitting with knees crossed, as Lord Buddha sits,— The arrow's barb, and winced to feel it sting, And turned with tears to soothe his bird again. Then some one came who said, "My Prince hath shot A swan, which fell among the roses here; He bids me pray you send it. Will you send ?» "Nay," quoth Siddârtha: "If the bird were dead, To send it to the slayer might be well, But the swan lives; my cousin hath but killed The godlike speed which throbbed in this white wing." And Devadatta answered, "The wild thing, Living or dead, is his who fetched it down; |