DEDICATED
Reading edition
To the descendants of those Germans who many generations ago were exiled from their homes in the beautiful valleys of the Rhine and Neckar in South Germany on account of fierce religious, and still fiercer political persecution.
So waren wir und sind es auch, Das edelste Geschlecht, Von biederm Sinn und reinem Hauch, Und in der Thaten Recht.
Goethe.