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\nThe Children of Wotan (1940)<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhere
\nis the end of your armoured march, O children of Wotan?<\/p>\n

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Earth
\nshudders with fear at your tread, the death-flame laughs in your eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe
\nhave seen the sign of Thor and the hammer of new creation,<\/p>\n

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A
\nseed of blood on the soil, a flower of blood in the skies.<\/p>\n

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We
\nmarch to make of earth a hell and call it heaven.<\/p>\n

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The
\nheart of mankind we have smitten with the whip of the sorrows seven;<\/p>\n

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The
\nMother of God lies bleeding in our black and gold sunrise.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cI
\nhear the cry of a broken world, O children of Wotan.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cQuestion
\nthe volcano when it burns, chide the fire and bitumen!<\/p>\n

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Suffering
\nis the food of our strength and torture the bliss of our entrails,<\/p>\n

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We
\nare pitiless, mighty and glad, the gods fear our laughter inhuman.<\/p>\n

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Our
\nhearts are heroic and hard; we wear the belt of Orion:<\/p>\n

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Our
\nwill has the edge of the thunderbolt, our acts the claws of the lion.<\/p>\n

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We
\nrejoice in the pain we create as a man in the kiss of a woman.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cHave
\nyou seen your fate in the scales of God, O children of Wotan,<\/p>\n

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And
\nthe tail of the Dragon lashing the foam in far-off seas?\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe
\nmock at God, we have silenced the mutter of priests at his altar.<\/p>\n

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Our
\nleader is master of Fate, medium of her mysteries.<\/p>\n

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We
\nhave made the mind a cypher, we have strangled Thought with a cord;<\/p>\n

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Dead
\nnow are pity and honour, strength only is Nature\u2019s lord.<\/p>\n

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We
\nbuild a new world-order; our bombs shout Wotan\u2019s peace.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe
\nare the javelins of Destiny, we are the children of Wotan,<\/p>\n

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We
\nare the human Titans, the supermen dreamed by the sage.<\/p>\n

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A
\ncross of the beast and demoniac with the godhead of power and<\/span> will,<\/p>\n

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We
\nare born in humanity\u2019s sunset, to the Night is our pilgrimage.<\/p>\n

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On
\nthe bodies of perishing nations, mid the cry of the cataclysm coming,<\/p>\n

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To
\na presto of bomb and shell and the aeroplanes\u2019 fatal humming,<\/p>\n

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We
\nmarch, lit by Truth\u2019s death-pyre, to the world\u2019s satanic<\/span> age.\u201d<\/p>\n

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