THE GERMAN BAND.
O blue is the tide By the harbour side, Whers sweetly the sunbeams shine; But the Lurles-'s spells Andi the Drr.cheoi fells Are far by the Old World Rhine. Yet softly and eleae Swells the music dear, Though breathed on a foreign strand — A mist dims the eye For the days gone by At the strains of the German band: For the evening breeze 'Mong the Linden trees, With tho Liedertafel glee: And a nation's pride In the Kaiser's stride Thru' Berlin -upon the Spree. The Ksiser is far — While the homeland star The exile no longer may view By fair G-retchen's side; For tlie ocean wide Hath severed the lovers tine : Still his craft he plies Under nilien £>kios, Where the Southern Cross doth shine— Spaie the minstrel's foe — Then for you, andi for me, There's the Watch on the G-ermaa KM& 1 © In the Isle of the Fern, While his he-art must yearn And his bearded lip may quiver For the Fatherland, For Geim&nia'o strand, By tlie rolling Danube River. ' — KOSLYH. Auckland, July %1
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Otago Witness, Issue 2630, 10 August 1904, Page 69
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179THE GERMAN BAND. Otago Witness, Issue 2630, 10 August 1904, Page 69
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