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Title: Gems (?) of German Thought

Author: Various

Editor: William Archer

Release Date: March 24, 2009 [EBook #28396]

Language: English

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GEMS (?) OF
GERMAN THOUGHT

COMPILED BY
WILLIAM ARCHER

[Illustration]

GARDEN CITY NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1917

_Copyright, 1917, by_
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

_All rights reserved, including that of
translation into foreign languages,
including the Scandinavian_

THOR'S HAMMER-CAST

Thor stood at the midnight end of the world,
His battle-mace flew from his hand:
"So far as my clangorous hammer I've hurled
Mine are the sea and the land!"
And onward hurtled the mighty sledge
O'er the wide, wide earth, to fall
At last on the Southland's furthest edge
In token that His was all.
Since then 'tis the joyous German right
With the hammer lands to win.
We mean to inherit world-wide might
As the Hammer-God's kith and kin.

FELIX DAHN (1878).

CONTENTS

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INTRODUCTION 3

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