The FatherlandFrederick H. MartensLorie A. Vanchena, The University of KansasEncoded byAshley Yoder1.80The University of KansasLawrence, KS2017Creative Commons license for electronic versionWorld War I American Immigrant PoetryUniversity of KansasDepartment of German StudiesMax Kade Center for German-American Studies1445 Jayhawk Blvd.Lawrence, KS 66045vanchena@ku.eduFrederick H.MartensThe Paris War ReportThe FatherlandGeorge Sylvester Viereck, Frederick F. SchraderNew York, NYThe Fatherland Corporation1914-09-30PrintWeekly1No. 814294.5219
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THE PARIS WAR REPORT.
By FREDERICK H. MARTENS.
THEY claimed the Austrian emperor, while on his way to court,Was swooped upon and captured by an English aeronaut;The sewer rats of Paris, trained by German spies, they say,The secret passages within the Paris forts betray.The Russian government declares all caviar contrabandBecause it eggs the Prussians on Russian soil to land.You’ll see that Denmark is distressed, if at the news you glance,For Germans shoot the Danish babes who’re crying “Vive la France!”And seven Prussian regiments every now and thenYield to a Belgian captain and his score of gallant men.In Alsace such the people’s joy to think of their releaseThey’re tearing down the boundary-posts to burn the Reichs Police.The Black Hole of Calcutta takes a seat way in the rearAccording to the war report thatdinned into our ear:A British gunboat, built to hold a score or so of crewBrings in three hundred prisoners. “Tis Paris news” hence true.There’s not a German cruiser steams that’s not already sunk,There’s not a Belgian but will drive ten German’s in a funk.There’s not a frenchman who appears upon a battlegroundBut what at once the Prussian dead lie scattered all around.And if the Germans are not whipped in war’s grin battle–court.They’ll have been licking at any rate, in the Paris war report.