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From Carlisle	A
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The young Prince of Anhalt Dessau	B
The Dowager's only son	C
Was a sturdy strong limbed fellow	D
And a most determined one	C
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Shook the tutor his locks of silver	E
And if I have any skill	F
This young Prince of Anhalt Dessau	B
He will always work his will	F
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I cry to the Wise for wisdom	G
I cry for strength to the Strong	H
That I train him to stand firmly	I
For the right against the wrong	H
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If he grow to gracious manhood	J
I shall not have wrought in vain	K
And my Fatherland so noble	L
Shall most surely reap the gain	K
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The Dowager in her chamber	E
With pride did her blue eyes shine	M
Fatherland hath many princes	B
But none of them all like mine	M
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He has courage fire and wisdom	G
Yet tender of heart is he	I
Proud but just and full of pity	I
This is as a prince should be	I
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My son growing up so worthy	I
Shall comfort my widowed fears	B
And he shall be my strong right hand	N
Through the cares of future years	B
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The Dowager's waiting women	C
Said Our Prince gives up the chase	B
And every day his steed reins he	I
Down there in the market place	B
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He forgets his rank so princely	I
To his grievous harm and loss	B
A trap for his youth so tender	E
Is laid by the damsel Fos	B
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The Princess rode in her chariot	O
Away to the market place	B
With her own proud eyes beholding	P
The beautiful tempter's face	B
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But she saw a stately maiden	C
With such pure and dove like eyes	B
Clothed in beauty like a flower	E
Or a saint from Paradise	B
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No wonder my son so youthful	L
Fixed his heart on one like thee	I
For if I were a Prince of Dessau	B
Willing captive I might be	I
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But you are a doctor's daughter	E
My son's of a princely line	M
You may wed with one more humble	L
But never with son of mine	M
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But my son is very wilful	L
We must conquer him with guile	L
To foreign courts he shall away	Q
Where most noble ladies smile	L
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One he'll see whose rank is princely	L
Fair of form and fair of face	B
She shall win him by her beauty	L
From his love in the market place	B
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Said the lily maiden weeping	P
'Twere well we had never met	R
Go my Prince to be with princes	B
Be happy and so forget	R
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Said the Prince of Anhalt Dessau	B
What's to be God keeps in store	S
I am Prince of Anhalt Dessau	B
But your lover for evermore	S
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Duty is the yoke of princes	B
It is good I go away	Q
For that widow's son there's blessing	P
Who his mother can obey	Q
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But we who are ruling princes	B
Should be patterns of faith and truth	T
The Prince thou hast loved my lily	L
Shall never deceive thy youth	T
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For as sure as to the ocean	C
Arrow swift flows on the Rhine	M
I go for my mother's pleasure	E
I am coming back for thine	M
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A year past the waiting women	C
Said Our Prince is back again	U
And he shows before the Empire	E
That his mother's plans are vain	K
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He came from the courts of Europe	V
He came to his mother's knee	L
But first went to the market place	B
The maiden he loved to see	L
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Said the Princess Son you're welcome	G
Anhalt Dessau's hope and pride	W
Have you well and wisely chosen	C
For Dessau a high born bride	W
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I saw many royal beauties	B
Dames courtly and fair and kind	X
But with married eyes I saw them	Y
For my heart was left behind	X
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Said the lady to her council	L
So our plans have failed thus far	Z
He'll forget his low born chosen	C
When he learns to look on war	S
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While he's gone I'll seek to rid me	L
Of the beauty which I dread	A2
I will give a precious dower	B2
To him who shall woo and wed	A2
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Said the Doctor to his daughter	E
Here's a life of wealth and ease	B
And a fair bridegroom too daughter	E
For we must our Princess please	B
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Ah me said the lily maiden	C
That I am the cause of strife	C2
Woeful is the gift of beauty	L
I'll be an unwilling wife	C2
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I have no strength for the battle	L
No more than a wounded dove	D2
O Leopold Anhalt Dessau	B
Where art thou my only love	D2
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With a moan of helpless sorrow	D
From the bridegroom turned her face	B
And saw a gallant troop of horse	B
Drawn up in the market place	B
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A strong arm is soon around her	E
Young Dessau is by her side	W
Draw and defend yourself you wretch	E2
Who would dare to claim my bride	W
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Then he stood before his mother	E
With a stern and angry face	B
I have stopped a gallant wedding	P
Begun in the market place	B
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The maid thou wouldst give in marriage	F2
Is mine by her plighted word	G2
And his blood who would supplant me	L
Has reddened on my good sword	H2
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Be a queen in Anhalt Dessau	B
Let tower and town be thine	M
But leave unto me my treasure	E
This fair low born love of mine	M
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She's my first love and my last one	C
And never we two shall part	I2
I'll take her with rites most holy	L
I will bind her to my heart	I2
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Now the holy words are spoken	C
At the young Dessau's command	N
He wedded the lily maiden	C
And he gave her his left hand	N
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What's to be said Anhalt Dessau	B
Is known but to God above	D2
But I have obeyed my mother	E
Been true to my early love	D2
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Now must I go to the battle	L
Leave mother and bride behind	X
My wife be a child to my mother	E
Mother to my love be kind	X
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A soldier's life is uncertain	C
Let us sternly do our best	J2
Love and duty be our watchword	G2
And leave to our God the rest	J2
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And thus the high Prince of Dessau	B
While giving obedience due	K2
To his gracious lady mother	E
To his own first love was true	K2
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He is gone away to battle	L
He's always in high command	N
As a man of vast resources	B
Who is as the king's right hand	N
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Drilling battling planning seiging	P
The bravest of all the brave	L2
The wisest of all in counsel	L
Loyal courteous kind and grave	L2
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This was in the time of battles	B
Battles for the native land	N
Whatever was in safe keeping	P
Was held by the strong right hand	N
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Anhalt Dessau bold and daring	P
Anhalt Dessau wise and slow	D
With a brain full of expedients	B
To subdue or outwit the foe	D
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In each conflict still to conquer	E
In each counsel wiser grown	M2
Till he stood above his fellows	B
A supporter of the throne	M2
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Till the king in council chamber	E
Said My lords we must devise	B
New honours for Anhalt Dessau	B
My general brave and wise	B
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Leopold of Anhalt Dessau	B
First in counsel first in fight	N2
What high reward you choose to name	O2
Is yours by undoubted right	N2
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My Liege to have served my country	L
And King till the strife is o'er	E
To be Sovereign Prince of Dessau	B
Is so much that I ask no more	S
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Nought for me but that I labour	B2
For my country all my life	C2
If you wish to do me honour	B2
Make a princess of my wife	C2
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I married her with my left hand	N
For she was of low degree	B2
I'd wed her with my right with both	P2
For so dear is she to me	B2
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We will make thy wife a princess	B
Said the King with kindling brow	B2
God grant she may bring to Dessau	B
Many sons so brave as thou	B2
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You are Sovereign Prince of Dessau	B
By the right of princely birth	Q2
She is Sovereign Queen of Beauty	B2
As fair as there walks the earth	Q2
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She's fairest and you the bravest	R2
With love for a joining band	N
Shall rank equal with the noblest	S2
That walks in our Fatherland	N
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Tears passed over Anhalt Dessau	B
And sprinkled his locks with snow	D
He had wealth success and honours	B
And his share of human woe	D
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His fair wife and his goodly sons	B
Filled his heart with joy and pride	W
But that heart was wrung with sorrow	D
When his only daughter died	W
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For ah she was long in dying	P
And his love was strong and warm	T2
To keep her from an early grave	L2
He'd have given his right arm	U2
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She was a most winsome maiden	C
And she had her mother's face	B
She brought back all his wooing time	V2
His love in the market place	B
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My daughter he said you're dying	P
You are fading fast away	Q
What is there you would have me do	K2
Love before your dying day	Q
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Thou the kindest and the bravest	R2
My father most dear she said	A2
Whate'er you've done has pleased me	B2
Take that comfort when I'm dead	A2
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But if you would do me pleasure	B2
She said with a lovely smile	L
The men whom you've led in battle	L
Poor fellows the rank and file	L
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I'd like to see them marching	P
To feast them with mirth and glee	B2
When laid in my grave so early	B2
They'll think kindly thoughts of me	B2
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My daughter of all my treasures	B
The loveliest and the best	J2
I know that my king so gracious	B
Will grant you your last request	J2
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With banners and martial music	P
With drum beat and trumpet blare	B2
They all marched to Anhalt Bernberg	P
To the palace court yard there	B2
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With all martial pomp and clangour	B2
Were the salutations made	W2
Where supported at the window	D
The dying one was laid	W2
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And tables were spread to feast them	Y
With plenty that made them groan	M2
But away by the Saale river	B2
Old Leopold wept alone	M2
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Leopold of Anhalt Dessau	B
He has reached three score and ten	U
They think it time he step aside	W
Giving place to younger men	U
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For old fashioned are his tactics	B
And old fashioned too is he	B2
And a new king has arisen	C
And new counsellors there be	B2
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Still the old man leads the army	B2
But he gets no word of cheer	B2
For the young king is impatient	X2
And the courtiers laugh and jeer	B2
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The troops are drawn up for battle	L
For the long expected fight	N2
'Tis my last said Anhalt Dessau	B
May our God defend the right	N2
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He stood among the veterans	B
Whom he had so often led	A2
And according to his custom	G
He uncovered his grey head	A2
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We are going into battle	L
How many shall come away	Q
Is known to the God of armies	B
Who shall lead us through this day	Q
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For we have come here to conquer	B2
As we conquered everywhere	B2
Uncover my lads and ask for	B2
The help that we need in prayer	B2
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O God who through life hast led me	B2
Help me still this once I pray	Q
Nor let the shame of first defeat	Y2
Come now when my head is grey	Q
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Be thou present with our army	B2
Do Thou let Thy might decide	W
But oh if Thou be not with us	B
Be not on the other side	W
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But leave it to drill and manhood	J
Amen In God's name come on	Z2
So Leopold Anhalt Dessau	B
His last battle fought and won	C
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And the King rescued from danger	B2
By the victory that day	Q
Lighted from his horse to greet him	A3
Clad in his roquelaure grey	Q
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Bowed low to him as a master	B2
In all the warrior's art	I2
And then as a friend in greeting	P
Pressed the hero to his heart	I2
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Now his sword rests in the scabbard	G2
He has done for aye with war	B2
For Leopold Anhalt Dessau	B
Now sleeps with the sons of Thor	B2