The Landsmannschaft did straight the Bann proclaim?
Thinkest thou yet how boldly then we daréd
With lovely maids, who still, so mild, so tame--
How in Commers to heaven we have gone--
Speak, Ancient House! oh! think'st thou yet thereon?
Rememberest thou each tragi-comic action--
How we did fight, since I had thee touchirt?
But when the bleeding wound gave satisfaction,
How heartier than ever we smollirt?
And how we then, both true unto our paction,