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Daun, it appears, was considerably elated; spent a great deal of his time, so precious just at present, in writing despatches, in congratulating and being congratulated; did an elaborate TE-DEUM, or Ambrosian Song, in Artillery and VOX HUMANA, which with the adjuncts, say splenetic people, as at Kolin, sensibly assisted Friedrich's affairs.
Not that even yet the Pandours would be quite quiet, or allow Old Leopold to quit his cart; far from it. And they returned in such increased and tempestuous state, as will again require mention, with the earliest Spring: precursors to a second, far more serious and deadly "Invasion of Silesia;" for which it hangs yet on the balance whether there will be a TE-DEUM or a MISERERE to sing!
'Wenzel Wallis, Friedrich asserts with due scorn, 'was all this while in a Chapel; praying ardently, to St. Vitus, or one knows not whom; 'without effect; till they shouted to him, "Beaten, Sir! There was, on the 21st of February, TE-DEUM sung in the churches of Berlin "for the Deliverance of Silesia from Invasion."
"And oh," next stanza says, "to think what our glory is founded on," on view of that unmentionable object, I declare to you! Strange TE-DEUM indeed. Coming from the very heart, truly, as few of them do; but not, in other points, recommendable at all! Here, of the night before, is something better: "At last, my dear Sister, I can announce you a bit of good news.
After the solemn mass in the Duomo, the magnificent chords of a jubilant Te-Deum filled the Piazza with harmonies it was the music of a Triumph indeed: the soldiers, the knights, the high functionaries of State, the priests and chanting choirs were all there; but the central figure under the golden baldachino, upheld by the barons of the realm and surrounded with royal honors, was not the Conqueror but the victim the prey the sacrifice.
"Inspecting his Finance Affairs, and questioning the parties interested, Friedrich notices a certain Convent in Cleve, which appears to have, payable from the Forest-dues, considerable revenues bequeathed by the old Dukes, 'for masses to be said on their behalf. He goes to look at the place; questions the Monks on this point, who are all drawn out in two rows, and have broken into TE-DEUM at sight of him: 'Husht!
Thick darkness; silence; tramp, tramp: a Prussian grenadier broke out, with solemn tenor voice again, into Church-Music; a known Church-Hymn, of the homely TE-DEUM kind; in which five-and-twenty thousand other voices, and all the regimental bands, soon join: "Now thank God, one and all, With heart, with voice, with hands-a, Who wonders great hath done To us and to all lands-a."
With none at all on the part of Daun; who was still standing among the heights and swamps of Planian, busy singing, or shooting, universal TE-DEUM, with very great rolling fire and other pomp, that day while Friedrich gathered his Siege-goods and got on march.
"Essentially a clear victory," said the Austrians; and sang TE-DEUM about it; but profited nothing by that piece of melody. The fact, considerable or not, was, from the first, too undeniable: Browne beaten from the field. Here are two Letters, brief both, which we may as well read: "LOBOSITZ, 4th October, 1756. "MY DEAR SISTER, Your will is accomplished.
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