Let presently a non-sectarian school,

Where knowledge shall be taught to Teuton men

That mumbo-jumbo is an out-worn rule,

Be built at Heidelberg or Göttingen.

There shall the Vandal sages come and go,

And learn at last why Belgium felt chagrin,

And pace the Prussian goose-step very slow,

From class to class, with lots of halts between.

They shall attain in time, but not as yet,

To starrier heights that now the negroes win;