Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Switzerland and Austria: Vol. XVI. 1876–79. | | | | Austria: Prague, Bohemia | | The Battle of Prague | | From the German |
| | Translated by H. W. Dulcken
WHEN the Prussians they marched against Prague,— | |
| ’Gainst Prague, the beauteous town,— | |
| They took up in camp a position, | |
| They brought with them much ammunition; | |
| They brought their cannons to bear,— | 5 |
| Schwerin was the leader there! | |
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| And forth rode Prince Henry then, | |
| With his eighty thousand men. | |
| “My army all would I give, now, | |
| If that Schwerin did but live now. | 10 |
| What an ill, what a terrible ill, | |
| That Schwerin they should shoot and kill!” | |
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| The trumpeter was then sent down, | |
| To ask if they ’d give up the town, | |
| Or if it by storm must be taken?— | 15 |
| In the townsmen no fear did this waken; | |
| Their city they would not give in; | |
| The cannonade must needs begin. | |
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| Now, who hath made this little song? | |
| To three Hussars it doth belong; | 20 |
| In Seidlitz corps they enlisted, | |
| In the army that Prague invested. | |
| O, Victory, hurrah, hurrah! | |
| Old Fritz was there himself that day. | | | | |
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