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"As usual, the divine prophetic mind of our king is in the right. There is certainly a funeral odor about us." "But God forbid that we should mourn," said Bielfeld, "we are much better prepared to sound the battlesong." All this passed while the physician was feeling the king's pulse, and Fredersdorf was tenderly arranging his pillows. The king looked at him inquiringly.
Here they paused to sing the last lines of their battlesong: "Fate seeks the coward out at home, He dies unwept, unknown to fame, While by the hero's honored tomb Our grandsons' grandsons shall proclaim: 'In the great conflict's fiercest hour He stood unmoved, our shield and tower."
Here they paused to sing the last lines of their battlesong: "Fate seeks the coward out at home, He dies unwept, unknown to fame, While by the hero's honored tomb Our grandsons' grandsons sliall proclaim: 'In the great conflict's fiercest hour He stood unmoved, our shield and tower."
One man improvised a new version of the battlesong, "Good-bye, good-bye to Tipperary," ending with "And we shan't get there". And they all went on firing steadily. The officers pointed out that such an opportunity for high-class, fancy shooting might never occur again; the Germans dropped line after line; the Tipperary humorist asked, "What price Sidney Street?"
Here they paused to sing the last lines of their battlesong: "Fate seeks the coward out at home, He dies unwept, unknown to fame, While by the hero's honored tomb Our grandsons' grandsons shall proclaim: 'In the great conflict's fiercest hour He stood unmoved, our shield and tower."
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