From The Lord Of Potsdam Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGCCCCCC HH I C HHCCHHAAJJKKHHLLHHCC CCMNCCCCOOCCCCCCHH A| We William Kaiser planted on Our throne | A |
| By heaven's grace but chiefly by Our own | A |
| Do deign to speak Then let the earth be dumb | B |
| And other nations cease their senseless hum | B |
| Seldom if ever does a chance arise | C |
| For Us to pose before Our people's eyes | C |
| But this is one of them this natal day | D |
| Whereon Our Ancient and Imperial sway | D |
| Which to the battle's death defying trump | E |
| Welded the States in one confounded lump | E |
| As many tasty meats are blent within | F |
| The German sausage's encircling skin | F |
| By Our decree is twenty five precisely | G |
| And under Us and God still doing nicely | G |
| Therefore ye Princelings Plenipotentates | C |
| And Representatives of various States | C |
| A cool Imperial pint your Kaiser drains | C |
| Both to Our 'more immediate' domains | C |
| And to Our lands Our isles beyond the sea | C |
| Our World embracing Greater Germany | C |
| Let loose the breathings of Our Royal Band | H |
| We give a rouse hoch hoch to HELGOLAND | H |
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| Kaiserliche Kapelle plays O Helgoland mein Helgoland Air Die Wacht am Rhein | I |
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| WILLIAM KAISER continues | C |
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| There are that languish on this festal day | H |
| Damned and impounded for lese majeste | H |
| We William in Our plentitude of grace | C |
| Propose to pardon every hundredth case | C |
| And though their sentence was no more than just | H |
| We offer each a copy of Our bust | H |
| With option of a fine but be it known | A |
| Whoso again shall deem his life his own | A |
| Or find in Ours the faintest flaw or fleck | J |
| God helping We will hang him by the neck | J |
| Yea he shall surely curse his impious star | K |
| That dares to question Who or where We are | K |
| Worship your Caesar and C V your God | H |
| Who spares the child may haply spoil the rod | H |
| Many Our uniforms but We are one | L |
| And one Our empire over which the sun | L |
| Careering on his cloud compulsive way | H |
| Sets once but never more than once a day | H |
| The seas are Ours world wide upon the oceans | C |
| Our fleet commands the liveliest emotions | C |
| Go where you will you find Our German manners | C |
| Prevailing under other people's banners | C |
| Go where you will you cannot but remark | M |
| The cheap but never nasty German clerk | N |
| Observe Our exports do you ever see | C |
| Things made as they are made in Germany | C |
| Always at home on Earth's remotest shores | C |
| E g among Our loved low German Boers | C |
| Freely Our folk expectorate and there | O |
| Our German bands inflame the balmy air | O |
| Likewise again Our passionate bassoons | C |
| Tickle the niggers of the Cameroons | C |
| Or others over whom Our Eagle flaps | C |
| In places not at present on the maps | C |
| One more Imperial pint your Kaiser drinks | C |
| To German intercourse with missing links | C |
| Let loose the breathings of Our Royal Band | H |
| We give hoch hoch Our glorious HINTERLAND | H |
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| Kaiserliche Kapelle plays O Hinterland mein Hinterland Air as before during which WILLIAM KAISER resumes his throne | A |
Owen Seaman
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