Note 4 — Music and the Drama.
Reading edition
Hecker seems to have been a sincere enthusiast; and it is always observed by his friends that he renounced ease and comfort for the cause that he espoused. We append a single verse from one of the "Hecker songs" that were in 1849 in the mouth of every Badish republican:—
"Look at Hecker wealth-renouncing, O'er his head the red plume waves, Th' awakening people's will announcing, For the tyrant's blood he craves! Mud boots thick and solid wears he, All round Hecker's banner come, And march at sound of Hecker's drum."