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Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 6. Young Germany

Note 2 — VI YOUNG GERMANY (continued 4)

Mary Morison translation

What! not a party man! Is not strong party feeling the mother of all victory? How can a poet calumniate the word in which lies the germ of all the noblest deeds? Speak out like a man: Are you for or against us? Is your watchword slavery or freedom? The Gods themselves descended from Olympus and fought on the battlements of party.

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