A NEW GREETING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 199, 1 February 1915, Page 7

A NEW GREETING.

JERMANY'S "HYMN OF HATE." •Berlin, January 29. The view formulae of greeting is j 'spreading over Germany. "God punish England," with the response "God punish her." Lissauer's "Hymn of Hate" is taught in' the schools. Thousands of children have recited it fit theatres and lectures. . Th'g is the text of the "Hvmn of Hatred": French and Russian they matter not, A blow for a blow and a shot for a shot; We. love them not, we hate them not, We hold the Weichscl anil Vo%'es-arate, We have but one and only hate. • lo'.e us -me, we hate as one, We have one foe and one alone. He is known to you all, he is known to you all. He crouches behind the dark grcv flood Full of envy, of rage, of craft, of gall. 'Cut off by waves that are thicker than blood. Come let us stand at the Judgment place. An oath to swear to, face to face. An oath of bronze no wind can shake, Ap oath for our sons and tjieir sons to take. Come, hear the word, repeat the word, Throughout the Fatherland make it heard. We will never forego our hate, We have all but a single hate, We love as one, we hate as one, We have one foe, and one alone— ENGLAND! In the Captain's mess, in the banquet- ! hall, ' i Sat feasting the officers, one and all, j Like a sable-blow, like the swing of a j sail, ] One seized his glass held high to hail; Sharp-snapped like the stroke of a rudder's play, [Spoke three words only: "To the j Day!" Whose glass this fate ? ] They had all but a single hate. - Who was thus known 1 i They had one foe and one alone— ENGLAND! , Take you the folk of the Earth in pay, : With bars of gold your ramparts lay, ! Bedeck the oceans with bow on bow. Ye reckon well, but not well enough now. French and Russian they matter not. A blow for a blow, a shot for a shot. ! We fight the battlo with bronze and ; steel, And the time that is coming Peace will • seal. You will we hate, with a lasting hate, ! We will never forego our hate, Hate by water and hate by land, ; Hate of the head and hate of the hand, j Hate of the hammer and hate of the ) crown, Hate of seventy millions, choking down. \ We love as one, we hate as "one, j We have one foe and one alone— l i ENGLAND! j "AMONG THE CELEBRITIES-." ] ! By Cable —Press Association—Copyright, j I Received 31, 5.5 p.m. t Berlin, January 30. ' The Kaiser has conferred the Red Eagle on Herr Lissauer, author of the "Hymn of Hate." The German press are delighted. The Tageblatt considers Herr- Lissauer to be among the celebrities of modem times.