The FatherlandC. Edwin HutchingsLorie A. Vanchena, The University of KansasEncoded byAshley Yoder1.97The 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.eduC. EdwinHutchingsTo The FatherlandThe FatherlandGeorge Sylvester Viereck and Frederick F. SchraderNew York, NYThe Fatherland Corporation1914-12-09PrintWeekly1No. 1813294.5219
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TO THE FATHERLAND
C. EDWIN HUTCHINGS
Dear Germany shall have her sons!What through my blood diluted runsSince first my grandsires sailed awayFrom Europe’s internecine fray?How can a man, half worth the name,Sit cold, while Europe is aflame?—While Germans fight the white man’s fight’Gainst Tartars knowing but one right:The right to spew their noisome hordesFrom Danube’s gates to Norway’s fjords!This fight’s the East against the West—Ask History who is worthiest.Old England, forced to play a partGoes grimly, with a sullen heart,Mercurial France, for sentiment,Forgetting all of race intent,Joins hands with Tartars, to regainSmall, worthless Alsace and Lorraine.The Fatherland has held the front—Through centuries has borne the bruntOf peaceful war for life and art,For progress, and the better part.—The nations marveled at the pace,And knew they ran a losing race.All armed against their jealous foes,The Germans in the night arose.They saw a yellow man emergeAnd, grinning stand upon their verge!The Teuton struck—smote first, and hard,The Teutons, an early Germanic tribe, here a reference to German speaking people.Struck like a man, his home to a gaurd.Dear Germany shall have her sons!What through their blood diluted runsSince their first grandsires sailed awayFrom Europe’s interncine fray?Shall men who flow that verile streamSit idle by, and watch, and dream,While Tartar foes invade that land,And stretch to clasp the Gallic hand?Arise, ye Goths! Embattled stand!Arise, for God and Fatherland!