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The Germans have a striking proverb; Was die Gans gedacht, das der Schwan vollbracht; What the goose but thought, that the swan fullbrought; or, to de-Saxonize it a little, pace Mr.
"Ich schlief, ich schlief, Aus tiefem Schlaf bin ich erwacht: Die Welt ist tief, Und tiefer als der Tag gedacht." the last phrase of which was repeated by the accompaniment, a semitone higher. Tief ist ihr Weh, Lust tiefer noch als Herzeleid: As far as this, the voice had been supported by simple, full-sounding harmonies.
The officers had lost all control over the soldiers. Later on, at Nooit Gedacht, where we had cover as well as the enemy, it was proved that as soon as the officers lose control over the men they remain lying behind the rocks without firing a shot, as they are too frightened to expose themselves. Most of them still had their bandoliers full of cartridges there, too, when they surrendered.
Fence in the morning. Ride out in the country, not in the Park. Get off your horse now and then, tie him up at a lych-gate and sit in a village church. Listen to the amateur organist practising 'Abide with me, and the 'Old Hundredth, on the Leiblich Gedacht and the Dulciana, with the bourdon on the pedals. There's nothing like that for making life seem a slow stepper instead of a racer.
For there was a touch of Germany in that genius which, as Goethe said, had "thought itself weary" muede sich gedacht.
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