Читать книгу The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 - Коллектив авторов, Ю. Д. Земенков, Koostaja: Ajakiri New Scientist - Страница 18

  Germany's still a little child,

    But he's nursed by the sun, though tender;

  He is not suckled on soothing milk,

    But on flames of burning splendor.

  One grows apace on such a diet;

    It fires the blood from languor.

  Ye neighbors' children, have a care

    This urchin how ye anger!

  He is an awkward infant giant;

    The oak by the roots uptearing,

  He'll beat you till your backs are sore,

    And crack your crowns for daring.

  He is like Siegfried, the noble child,

    That song-and-saga wonder;

  Who, when his fabled sword was forged,

    His anvil cleft in sunder!

  To you, who will our Dragon slay,

    Shall Siegfried's strength be given.

  Hurrah! how joyfully your nurse

    Will laugh on you from heaven!

  The Dragon's hoard of royal gems

    You'll win, with none to share it.

  Hurrah! how bright the golden crown

    Will sparkle when you wear it!