"PERFIDIOUS ALBION!"

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2465, 7 October 1914, Page 4

"PERFIDIOUS ALBION!"

The Lokal of August 12 quotes some bitter verses by Prof: Otto -V. Gierke, who accuses England of having betrayed her Teutonic origin. The following is a rough version of the- first and concluding stanzas: — What, has thou then the Teuton kinship broken, Perfidious Albion! And sett'st thyself to deeds of shame unspoken, All for what Judas won! ***- * ■ * Our strength i s in the truth of God eternal, The truth that shall not end, Launch, England, launch, thy fleets of might infernal, We staad strong to defend. We, too, arc Lords of Ocean, nor can pardon Thy people's bartered troth; Our hearts and will to victory shall harden, Staunch to our word and oath. Putt'st thou thy trust in cunning calculation ' a That we.are few, ye more? Learn that the spirit of the German nation Makes hosts on sea and shore. The spirit, that once the oaks of freedom wreathing Our ancient land of Germany inspired, Now as from heaven miraculously breathing, This day our hear Is hath fired. See'sfc thou not how its holy flames are glowing Or hear'st thou not the thunder of its call? United are we; and united going, Ready to stand or fall. Storm on with Slavs and strangers in alliance, Vile-hearted nation, on I Thou shalt not set God's judgment at defiance, Perfidious Albion I