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PATRIOTIC PIECES

Act more un-German! Could one believe
Such guilt to Kaiser and to God!
'Twas I, dear, led the shooting squad.
We fired—we all are steady-eyed—
And so the little miscreant died."


Thus wrote Fritz, in school-boy hand,
To Gretchen in the Fatherland.
If such be miscreants, what would I,
Or thou do, so to live, so die?


As for Fritz, there is no pother;
That precious piece of "cannon-fodder"
Was shot while looting with red hand:
And Gretchen weeps in the Fatherland.