ON LEARNING OF THE REPORTED APPEAL OF GERMANY TO MATRONS AND MAIDENSTO GIVE THEMSELVES "OFFICIALLY" TO THE PROPAGATION OF THE RACE, UNDER IMMUNITY FROM THE LAW LUTHER, come back to thy degenerate land, And see, as one who learned to love it sees, How it is sunk in crimes and cruelties, Lured by false glory to the soul's quicksand. The thunder Wittenberg could not withstand -- Can it be silent when all honor flees And State, not Church, tempts with indulgences? Is there no lightning in the thunder's hand? What though they sing thy hymn who follow goals Of empire, futile numbers, godless power? Rescue thy people in the basest hour That ever Time has written on her scrolls. Let the mad miscreants at thine anger cower! Brutes breed them bodies: who shall breed them souls? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 21 by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING LOVERS, AND A REFLECTION by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY ODE SUNG IN THE TOWN HALL, CONCORD, JULY 4, 1857 by RALPH WALDO EMERSON A PRAYER FOR MY DAUGHTER by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS THE EPIPHANY by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD |