The Kaiser’s Advice to Prince Henry of Prussia.
The London “Punch” translates into verse the Kaiser's advice to Pnnce Henry on setting out to visit the United States. It is all very good, as the following last verse will show Now, in conclusion, Henry, we retrip of yours is not a private tt# You go, as we observed but yesterW To forge a link in Our Welt-Politik; Your business is by captivating bolster up our tottering Teuton 133 g f g S that ®ur gracious attitude may by way of tangible reW3 Bebome the prey of multi-million-aires j
For you will find among this fertile nation' . ' A tendency towards buying up Creation ; • Aad, as Medusa’s petrifying gatzo Converted men to stone in mythic days, So all that look upon the modern Gorgon, Are turned into a trust by J. P. Morgan! If he should tempt you, then, with fearful odds, To realise Our country’s household gods, . O shrink from bartering for ready pelf Things that are scarce less sacred than Ourself. O Henry, do not in a moment's heat Arrange to pop our precious German fleet!
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Manawatu Herald, 5 April 1902, Page 3
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186The Kaiser’s Advice to Prince Henry of Prussia. Manawatu Herald, 5 April 1902, Page 3
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