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| COUNT OTTO VON BISMARCK | (Frontispiece) [5] |
| THE BISMARCKS OF OLD | [36] |
| Happy the man who ne’er forgets
The great and good who bore his name;
They honor him who honors them,
And emulates their fame.
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| BISMARCK’S FATHER (Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand von Bismarck) | [75] |
| BISMARCK’S ARMORIAL BEARINGS | [88] |
| Lift the ancestral standard high,
The banners to the breeze be cast!
’Tis in the warnings of the Past
The sure hopes of the Future lie.
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| EARLY YOUTH | [96] |
| The opening buds betray the flowers,
The flowers the fruit betray;
The first note that we catch reveals
The spirit of the lay.
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| THE CRADLE | [107] |
| Stately, noble, and well founded,
And with beauty all surrounded,
Stand the old ancestral towers;
Stately, noble, and well grounded
In himself, with hopes unbounded,
See the son forsake those bowers
For the pathway that will lead him
To the troublous times that need him.
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| LEARNING THE BUSINESS | [154] |
| The master is born, not made,
But must learn the way to rule,
As the workman learns his trade,
And life must be his school:
He must give body and soul,
He must give heart and hand,
To his work, and must search out knowledge
Through many a foreign land.
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| COUNTESS VON BISMARCK-SCHÖNHAUSEN | [181] |
| ON THE VOYAGE OF LIFE | [198] |
| Count not such days as wasted;
The wanderer, as he goes,
Plucks many a flower of wisdom
That by the wayside grows.
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| BISMARCK’S ONLY SISTER (Frau von Arnim) | [238] |
| A BALL AT BISMARCK’S | [269] |
| Beauty and strength, rank, fame, and power
Assemble in the festive hall,
To dance away the merry hour,
Or watch the gay scene from the wall.
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| BISMARCK AS CHANCELLOR | [313] |
| BISMARCK’S ESTATE IN FARTHER POMERANIA | [354] |
| The Bismarcks shall hold their domain till the day
When they from their haunts drive the herons away.
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| VICTORY | [384] |
| MAJOR-GENERAL AND CHANCELLOR OF THE CONFEDERATION | [414] |
| Before Prussia’s royal banner
Humbled is the Austrian’s pride;
On the field of victory
Is the statesman justified.
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| THE PARK AT VARZIN | [451] |