Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1870-12-02
From the New York Evening Post.l
FRANCE VERSUS GEMANY.
August 2, 1eEe-SAARBRUoK.
September 2, i870--SEDAN.

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September 2, ls7O-SEDAN.
Who could have dreamed Il 10,
Bat one short month agof
When the proud Despot started for the Rhine,
With all his armies vast, In serried line,
(GooG nooth, gallant show b
When, at Saarbruch, the first fierce shot wal
hurled,
Whose thunder echoed round a startled world
Whence, to his Dame dispatched the heartles'
That their young bog was ars. baptized viii
That ere the month were past
His armies shattered, and their prestige gone
'Reft OF his friends, his power, bis stolen crown
His overthrow complete
The Usurper thus would haste
All abjectly to cast
The uufeshed sword, so lately girded on
with, such proud boast-srs yet q had been
dra,on-
Down at his COnqueror's feeti
Sure, since in conflict 6rs.
Nan. with his fellow-man rudetwarfare wagedi
Was this In which the Tyrant then engaged
Most causeless, most accurst
And, since the COrsican
Was from his giddy hight of power hurled,
No Despots utter fdn has dazed the world,
Wrought in so brief spani
The nations were at poace
Each striving to increase
Its wealth by industry and those high arts
Which truest greatness 10 land imparss
(Such spoils hath Peace alone
Each needed time and rest TO heal past scars,
Each had large debt TO pay for bygone warp;
Each had enough of Glory wonl
II was not France with Germany that Jared,
II was the Despoi who with Freedom warred,
CAS- he had ever done ~
The Traitor, who confding France betrayed,
Thn DArin hA bod a mi hq
Who, seeking thus to prop the tottering throns,
So lie might leave the Sceptor to his SON
With shallow, false pretext,
Proclaimed the War which has let loose this
food
OF Death and Carnage, Woe and Strife and
Meier dreaming that the next
Unerring record in the Book of Fate
Should be his fall Nor long had we to wait
To read In language plain,
The Judgment just Of" Him who cannot err"
LOT hc has JallenI Cast dawn, a. like Lucifer,
Never to rise again p"
Now let the conflict ceasei
And, since the usurper from his power is hurled,
Again let white-rObed Peace
Spread her fair mantle DER gladdenod world
Forhin or such as he,
No sympathy have we!
And he led his cohorts to the fight.
Arrayed against him reason. truth and right,
Our sympathies could ouiI be with thoss
Who stood for "Fatherland against their foes;
And still with them II lies,
50 long as they shall seek but just redress
For their late wrongs we can expect no less:
Yet must We syny Ibi 9
With FRANoE too, with the sword thus 'ganst
her breast,
Not drawn and pointed only now, but pro,,edi
For US to see were saddest sight on earth
Her young Republic stranglsd in its birth .!
Never can we forget
The land Of LAFAYETTEi
Who, when our Nation struggled for its birth
Against the mightest power Of the earth,
Faint, weak and sore dIsmayed -
Gave us her vital aid
Mixed though her motives were in doing 50,
Part love for us, more hatred of our foe,
Still, for the act, our gratitude we owei
And we can see, arrayed
In arms, an overwhelming foe, in FRANCE,
Fen TO her vey capital advance,
Without regret for heri II may not be
FRANCE claims and must receive our sympathy !
And GERMANY, no less,
Who, in our sore distress,
When foul Rebellion reared its rampant head;
And England made glad haste to hail us-deadi
When FRANCE not France, but He, our treach-
erous foe,
Thinking us down, aimed then bastard blow.
Ana struck d us, tnIougn pOoT, weak MEXICO !
While, at the saddest strife il ever saw,
The wonder stricken world looked on in awe
Then all Germania through
The German heart beat true,
In earnest sympathy with our distress;
While others sneered or paltered,
The German faith ne'er faltered
In our Just cause. and in lis full successl
They f,lt the principle for which we fought,
Sustained our credit and oar bonds still bou ght;
While Germans here, spread over all our land,
"Rallied around our Flag" with heart and
hands
And German blood, commingled with our own,
Flowed freely, till the Nations life was won |
So, can we now be blamed.
That with both Nations we should sympathize?
That we would fain see neither made prize,
But rather Peace proclaimed;
That thus we still may speak
Our warmcst wishes for both nations grand;
Our mingled cries still cross old Oceans strand,
0f-"Lebe hoch dds Deufsehe KaerlandI"
And "Hire Ia RepHRiqne!"
L. ]. CIsT.
CISCINN ATT, September. 1870.