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Old 08-29-2014, 11:05 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Not saying it's necessarily the best (although it was written by Joseph Haidn), but it's definitely my favorite. My military school's anthem actually used the music to this song, just with changed lyrics. Once I found this out I memorized the German version and would sing it at school assemblies. I can actually still remember and sing the first verse, and part of the second.


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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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