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| COUNT OTTO VON BISMARCK | (Frontispiece) 5 |
| THE BISMARCKS OF OLD | 36 |
| Happy the man who ne’er forgetsThe great and good who bore his name;They honor him who honors them,And emulates their fame. | |
| BISMARCK’S FATHER (Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand von Bismarck) | 75 |
| BISMARCK’S ARMORIAL BEARINGS | 88 |
| Lift the ancestral standard high,The banners to the breeze be cast!’Tis in the warnings of the PastThe sure hopes of the Future lie. | |
| EARLY YOUTH | 96 |
| The opening buds betray the flowers,The flowers the fruit betray;The first note that we catch revealsThe spirit of the lay. | |
| THE CRADLE | 107 |
| Stately, noble, and well founded,And with beauty all surrounded,Stand the old ancestral towers;Stately, noble, and well groundedIn himself, with hopes unbounded,See the son forsake those bowersFor the pathway that will lead himTo the troublous times that need him. | |
| LEARNING THE BUSINESS | 154 |
| The master is born, not made,But must learn the way to rule,As the workman learns his trade,And life must be his school:He must give body and soul,He must give heart and hand,To his work, and must search out knowledgeThrough many a foreign land. | |
| COUNTESS VON BISMARCK-SCHÖNHAUSEN | 181 |
| ON THE VOYAGE OF LIFE | 198 |
| Count not such days as wasted;The wanderer, as he goes,Plucks many a flower of wisdomThat by the wayside grows. | |
| BISMARCK’S ONLY SISTER (Frau von Arnim) | 238 |
| A BALL AT BISMARCK’S | 269 |
| Beauty and strength, rank, fame, and powerAssemble in the festive hall,To dance away the merry hour,Or watch the gay scene from the wall. | |
| BISMARCK AS CHANCELLOR | 313 |
| BISMARCK’S ESTATE IN FARTHER POMERANIA | 354 |
| The Bismarcks shall hold their domain till the dayWhen they from their haunts drive the herons away. | |
| VICTORY | 384 |
| MAJOR-GENERAL AND CHANCELLOR OF THE CONFEDERATION | 414 |
| Before Prussia’s royal bannerHumbled is the Austrian’s pride;On the field of victoryIs the statesman justified. | |
| THE PARK AT VARZIN | 451 |
