TRUTH ABOUT THE "HYMN OF HATE"

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2507, 7 July 1915, Page 3

TRUTH ABOUT THE "HYMN OF HATE"

FILCHED FROM A TIRADE " AGAINST PRUSSIA. "It has been found," says the London "Morning Post," "that the famous (or infamous) 'Hymn of Hate' has been extracted, from the waste-paper basket of George" Horweg, the stubborn German revolutionary, who wrote the verses and' addressed them to tho Prussians in 1841. In . the original, the concluding words are:— We have only one common; foe — Prussia! "This is now made to read:— We have only one common foe— England! "The plagiarist is Ernest Lissauer, who, by substituting England for Prussia, has created for himself a reputation second only to that of the Kaiser among German 'poets.' So it appears that not only are these Prussians bullies,' women-slayers, and defamers.; of things sacred, but pirates,' plagiarists, and thieves. 1 There is no doubt whatever that . Germany has but one common foe—Prussia." .- ' ; ;; George Herweg (1817-75) was a Ger- . man poet, who was born at Stuttgart, and became famous through his political poems "Gediclite Eines Lebendigen" and '-Neue Gedichte." Both books were confiscated by tSie German police. He fled to Switzerland and Paris, but on his return visited Jena, Leipzig, Dresden, and Berlin,. a journey described as :"a veritable triumphal progress." I Ho was a leader of the South German rising of 1848, but after defeat.esoaped I to Switzerland. • ' -' ' =====