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Schiller's version runs thus: Der ganze Saal war Ohr, jedweder Mund verschlossen, Und Fuerst Aeneas, hingegossen Auf hohem Polstersitz, begann: Dein Wille, Koenigin, macht Wunden wieder bluten, Die keine Sprache schildern kann: Wie Trojas Stadt verging in Feuerfluten, Den Jammer willst du wissen, die Gefahr, Wovon ich Zeuge, ach, und meistens Opfer war.
The cruiser Amphion was the first British war vessel lost in the war. The survivors on landing at the North Sea port of Harwich, England, on August 10, stated that hardly had they left Harwich than they were ordered to clear the decks for action. They sighted the German mine-laying vessel Koenigin Luise, and, as it refused to stop even when a shot was fired across its bows, they gave chase.
Totals 172,700 5,082 Date Name and Type How Sunk Tonnage Lives Lost Aug. 5 Panther, gunboat Shelled 900 75 Aug. 6 Koenigin Luise, mine layer Torpedoed 1,800 70 Aug. 7 Augsburg, protected cruiser Shelled 4,280 158 Aug. 9 U-15, submarine Shelled 400 12 Aug. 27 Kaiser Wm. der Grosse, aux. cruiser Shelled 14,849 30 Aug. 27 Magdeburg, protected cruiser Shelled 4,478 200 Aug. 28 Ariadne, protected cruiser Shelled 2,620 200 Aug. 28 V-186, V-187, destroyers Shelled 1,290 100 Sept. 14 Cap Trafalgar,auxiliary cruiser Shelled 26,000 14 Sept. 15 Hela, small cruiser Torpedoed 2,000 10 Oct. 17 S-115, 117, 118, 119, 4 destroyers 1,660 193 Oct. 20 S-30, destroyer Ran Ashore 400 ... Oct. 25 Submarine Shelled 400 12 Oct. 30 Submarine Shelled 400 12 Nov. 4 Yorck, armored cruiser Mined 9,350 226 Nov. 7 Jaguar, gunboat Shelled 330 50 Nov. 7 Luchs, gunboat Shelled 880 50 Nov. 7 Iltis, gunboat Shelled 880 50 Nov. 7 Cormoran, gunboat Shelled 1,600 100 Nov. 7 Tiger, gunboat Shelled 880 50 Nov 7 Taku, destroyer Shelled 280 26 Nov. 7 Ruchin, mine layer Shelled ... ... Nov. 9 Emden, protected cruiser Shelled 3,540 200 Nov. . . Wilhelm der Grosse, battleship Mined 10,790 400 Nov. . . Hertha, cruiser Mined 5,569 200 Dec. 8 Scharnhorst, armored cruiser Shelled 11,420 764 Dec. 8 Gneisenau, armored cruiser Shelled 11,420 700 Dec. 8 Leipzig, cruiser Shelled 3,200 280 Dec 8 Nurnberg, cruiser Shelled 3,200 256 Dec. 10 Three submarines Shelled 1,200 36 Number of vessels lost, 38.
O-he! old grumbler beyond the ocean. Wait till Don Sabas comes again to the Koenigin Strasse. He will let you kneel and touch the folds of it with one finger. O-he! old spectacled ransacker of the world!" Forgotten was the impotent revolution, the danger, the loss, the gall of defeat.
The accompaniment of the ode is throughout in keeping with the rhapsodical character of the words and melody: note the long, persistent A of the first and second violins in octaves at the words "des kuehnsten Muthes Koenigin, des Weltenwerdens Waltering," followed by their joyous upward flight; the broken chords of the harp; the swelling upward semitones of flute, oboe, and clarinet bringing forth the germ of No. 11b.; the trombone chords at the words "Leben und Tod sind unterthan ihr"; the arpeggio accompaniment of the violas, and the wonderfully poetic climax at the end, "des Todes Werk ... Frau Minne hat es meiner Macht entwandt."
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