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The Keeping Of The Door - ZaunköniG - 22.04.2012 The Keeping Of The Door There was no way but this. no bar they found To hold the door against the ruffians' hate, The empty staples mocked the king with fate, The woman's cry with clashing steel was drowned, Sudden a maiden sprang from those around And shot her arm across the iron grate - She held them, till beneath the shattering weight The brave bone snapt: she swooned upon the ground. Thus, Belgium, when hell's traitors rushed the door Lusting to give the world to spoil and flame And wreak their hate on all the true and free, Thy brave arm held them, yet no rescue came. -'Tis shattered, and thou liest wounded sore That we may live. What shall we do for thee? |