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The Te Deum, which is celebrated every year, on November 15th, in honour of King Albert's Saint's day, is forbidden. From the month of March, 1915, it is practically a forbidden thing to sing the Brabançonne, even in the schools. In some of the orders issued there is still a weak attempt at "respecting," in a German way, "the people's patriotic feelings."
She bowed her supple figure double on the seat, covering her face with her sun-browned hands. The airman drove on, whistling "La Brabançonne" under his breath, and deep in thought. From time to time he glanced at the curved figure beside him; but he said no more for a long time. Toward sunset they drove into the Sainte Lesse highway. He spoke abruptly, dryly: "Anybody can weep for a friend.
"Then if they come and find you here as my prisoner they will think they understand." The colour flamed in her face and she bowed it, resting her elbows on the keyboard. "Come," he said, "don’t be distressed. Does it matter what a Hun thinks? Come; let’s be cheerful. Can you hum for me ’La Brabançonne’?" She did not reply. "Well, never mind," he said.
I happened to look round, and found standing beside me, looking up at me, wide-eyed and wondering, the page boy from the Circolo, whom I had harangued on the destiny of the world's youth, and afterwards tipped. The band was playing over and over again, at short intervals, God Save the King, the Marcia Reale, the Marseillaise, the Brabançonne and the Marcia degli Alpini.
Vivien herself, smiling and laughing as she had not done since Bertie's death, attended the service in Sainte-Gudule and joined in singing La Brabançonne in place of Te Deum, laudamus. From this date onwards July 21 the German débacle proceeded, with scarcely one day's intermission, with never a German regain of lost ground. When the Americans had retaken St.
If every church has become the "Temple de la Patrie," if the Brabançonne resounds under the Gothic arches of every nave, Cardinal Mercier has become the good shepherd who has taken charge of the flock during the King's absence.
Little bell-mistress, arm your white hands with your wooden gloves and make this old carillon speak in brass and iron!" He caught her by the arm; they ran down the short flight of steps; she drew on her wooden gloves and sprang to the keyboard. "I’ll hold the stairs!" he cried. "I can hold these stairs for an hour against the whole world in arms. Now, then! The Brabançonne!"
Anneessens was executed, and the bitterness provoked by this tyrannical measure obliged the Government to recall Prié a few years later . These popular movements were only the first signs of the increasing restlessness of the people which caused the Brabançonne revolution of 1789.
Aircraft were overhead, dropping confetti. The balconies all along the route were draped with flags and colored banners, and filled with people who, when the King and his family rode by, showered them with flowers and little flags. At one place a company of five hundred young women sang the Brabanconne, the Belgian national song, and the American, French and British national anthems.
They have sung the Brabançonne and the "Lion de Flandres" as a last defiance to their oppressors whilst those long cattle trains, packed with human cattle, rolled in wind and rain towards the German frontier. And the echo of their song still haunts the sleep of every honest man. For whatever Germany may do or say, the time is no longer when such crimes can be left unpunished.
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