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They held a great prayer-service in Berlin,

And augured German triumph from some words

Said to be spoken by the Jewish God

To Gideon, which signified that He

Was staunchly partial to the Israelites.

The aisles were thronged ; and in the royal box

(I had it from a tourist who was there.

Clutching her passport, anxious, like the rest),

There sat the Kaiser, looking "very sad."

And then they sang ; she said it shook the heart.

The women sobbed ; tears salted bearded lips

Unheeded ; and my friend looked back and saw

A young girl crumple in her mother's arms.

They carried out a score of them, she said.

While German hearts, through bursting German

throats Poured out, Ein Feste Burg 1st Unser Gott !

(^'ea, " Unser Gott I Our strength is Unser Gott ! Not that light-minded Bon Dieu of France ! ")

I think we all have made our God too small. There was a young man, a good while ago,

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