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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=539692" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Funeral of the German Emperor</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=539692" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Ye sons of Germany, your noble Emperor William now is dead.<br>Who oft great armies to battle hath led;<br>He was a man beloved by his subjects all,<br>Because he never tried them to enthral. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=539692" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">The people of Germany have cause now to mourn,<br>The loss of their hero, who to them will ne'er return;<br>But his soul I hope to Heaven has fled away,<br>To the realms of endless bliss for ever and aye. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=539692" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">He was much respected throughout Europe by the high and the low,<br>And all over Germany people's hearts are full of woe;<br>For in the battlefield he was a hero bold,<br>Nevertheless, a lover of peace, to his credit be it told. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=539692" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">'Twas in the year of 1888, and on March the 16th day,<br>That the peaceful William's remains were conveyed away<br>To the royal mausoleum of Charlottenburg, their last resting-place,<br>The God-fearing man that never did his country disgrace. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=539692" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">The funeral service was conducted in the cathedral by the court chaplain, Dr. Kogel,<br>Which touched the hearts of his hearers, as from his lips it fell,<br>And in conclusion he recited the Lord's Prayer<br>In the presence of kings, princes, dukes, and counts assembled there. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=539692" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">And at the end of the service the infantry outside fired volley after volley,<br>While the people inside the cathedral felt melancholy,<br>As the sound of the musketry smote upon the ear,<br>In honour of the illustrous William, whom they loved most dear. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=539692" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Then there was a solemn pause as the kings and princes took their places,<br>Whilst the hot tears are trickling down their faces,<br>And the mourners from shedding tears couldn't refrain;<br>And in respect of the good man, above the gateway glared a bituminous flame. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=539692" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Then the coffin was placed on the funeral car,<br>By the kings and princes that came from afar;<br>And the Crown Prince William heads the procession alone,<br>While behind him are the four heirs-apparent to the throne. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=539692" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Then followed the three Kings of Saxony, and the King of the Belgians also,<br>Together with the Prince of Wales, with their hearts full of woe,<br>Besides the Prince of Naples and Prince Rudolph of Austria were there,<br>Also the Czarevitch, and other princes in their order I do declare. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=539692" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">And as the procession passes the palace the blinds are drawn completely,<br>And every house is half hidden with the sable drapery;<br>And along the line of march expansive arches were erected,<br>While the spectators standing by seemed very dejected. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=539692" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">And through the Central Avenue, to make the decorations complete,<br>There were pedestals erected, rising fourteen to fifteen feet,<br>And at the foot and top of each pedestal were hung decorations of green bay,<br>Also beautiful wreaths and evergreen festoons all in grand array.<br>And there were torches fastened on pieces of wood stuck in the ground;<br>And as the people gazed on the weird-like scene, their silence was profound;<br>And the shopkeepers closed their shops, and hotel-keepers closed in the doorways,<br>And with torchlight and gaslight, Berlin for once was all ablaze.<br>The authorities of Berlin in honour of the Emperor considered it no sin,<br>To decorate with crape the beautiful city of Berlin;<br>Therefore Berlin I declare was a city of crape,<br>Because few buildings crape decoration did escape.<br>First in the procession was the Emperor's bodyguard,<br>And his great love for them nothing could it retard;<br>Then followed a squadron of the hussars with their band,<br>Playing "Jesus, Thou my Comfort," most solemn and grand.<br>And to see the procession passing the sightseers tried their best,<br>Especially when the cavalry hove in sight, riding four abreast;<br>Men and officers with their swords drawn, a magnificent sight to see<br>In the dim sun's rays, their burnished swords glinting dimly.<br>Then followed the footguards with slow and solemn tread,<br>Playing the "Dead March in Saul," most appropriate for the dead;<br>And behind them followed the artillery, with four guns abreast,<br>Also the ministers and court officials dressed in their best. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=539692" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">The whole distance to the grave was covered over with laurel and bay,<br>So that the body should be borne along smoothly all the way;<br>And the thousands of banners in the procession were beautiful to view,<br>Because they were composed of cream-coloured silk and light blue. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=539692" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">There were thousands of thousands of men and women gathered there,<br>And standing ankle deep in snow, and seemingly didn't care<br>So as they got a glimpse of the funeral car,<br>Especially the poor souls that came from afar. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=539692" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">And when the funeral car appeared there was a general hush,<br>And the spectators in their anxiety to see began to crush;<br>And when they saw the funeral car by the Emperor's charger led,<br>Every hat and cap was lifted reverently from off each head. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=539692" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">And as the procession moved on to the royal mausoleum,<br>The spectators remained bareheaded and seemingly quite dumb;<br>And as the coffin was borne into its last resting-place,<br>Sorrow seemed depicted in each one's face. </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=539692" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">And after the burial service the mourners took a last farewell<br>Of the noble-hearted William they loved so well;<br>Then rich and poor dispersed quietly that were assembled there,<br>While two batteries of field-guns fired a salute which did rend the air<br>In honour of the immortal hero they loved so dear,<br>The founder of the Fatherland Germany, that he did revere.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=William+Topaz+McGonagall">William Topaz McGonagall</a></strong></div>