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BAVARIAN CRADLE SONG

By Howard C. Robbins.

LITTLE son, the men-folk go

Forth in arms to meet the foe.

Fighting for the home-land holy,

Forth like men the men-folk go.

Little son, live thou to be

Brother, husband, friend to me.


Are they marching by the Rhine?

Have they crossed the border line?

Go they where the raging Cossacks

Drink the blood of men like wine?

Where they go, there fights till death

German honor, German faith.


Little son, if hopes are vain,

If the brave come not again,

If to save the home-land holy

God requires the final pain.

Little son, live thou to be

Brother, husband, friend to me.


Robbins, Howard C. “Bavarian Cradle Song.” The Fatherland 1, no. 10 (October 14, 1914): 7.

Robbins, Howard C. “Bavarian Cradle Song.” The Fatherland 1, no. 10 (October 14, 1914): 7.

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Rhine

In 1914, the Western Front ran between the Rhine River and the Vosges Mountains in the borderland Alsace–Lorraine.

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Cossacks

The Cossacks, from Ukraine and southern Russia, were known for their horsemanship and military skill. Used here as a reference to Russia and fighting on the Eastern Front.


Peeling, Siobhan. “Cossacks.” In 1914–1918–online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, edited by Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer, and Bill Nasson. Freie Universität Berlin, 2014–. Article published October 8, 2014. https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/cossacks.

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Bavarian

Bavaria, a southern German state and a kingdom from 1806 to 1918, became part of the German Empire in 1871.