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WHAT MIGHT BE DONE.

Stretched round the fading, flickering light
We watch the stars above us,

Then bid the world and care good-night,
And dream of those who love us.

THE FATHERLAND.

"WHAT Country does a German claim?
His Fatherland,-knowest thou its name?
Is it Bavaria,-Saxony?

An inland State, or on the sea?
There on the Baltic's plains of sand,
Or mid the Alps of Switzerland?
Austria? the Adriatic shores?

Or where the Prussian eagle soars?
Or where the hills, clad by the vine,
Adorn the landscape of the Rhine?
Oh, no! Oh, no! not there alone,
The land with pride we call our own;
Not there,-a German's heart or mind
Is to no narrow realm confined;
Where'er he hears his native tongue,
When hymns of praise to God are sung,
There is his Fatherland, and he
Has but one country-GERMANY!”

WHAT MIGHT BE DONE.

WHAT might be done, if men were wise-
What glorious deeds, my erring brother
Would they unite

In love and right,

And cease their scorn of one another 1

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Oppression's heart might be imbued
With purest drops of loving kindness,
And knowledge pour

From shore to shore

Light on the eyes of mental blindness.

All slavery, warfare, lies and wrongs—
All vice and crime might die together;
And wine and corn

To each man born

Be free as warmth in summer weather.

The meanest wretch that ever trod,
The deepest sunk in guilt and sorrow,
Might stand erect

In self-respect,

And share the teeming world to-morrow.

What might be done? This might be done, And more than this, my suffering brotherMore than the tongue

Ere said or sung,

If men were wise and loved each other.

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