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He was born in 1769, in the Isle of Riigen, and died in i860. But it was not till ten years later that the prophesy of his song was fulfilled:
"Where'er men speak m German tongue, "Where German songs to God are sung, That only be thy boundary line— That, valiant German, call it thine. The whole of Germany shall it be ! 0, God of Heav'n, look down and see, And German courage to us send, To love and guard it to the end ''
The unfortunate Korner, author of the " Schwertlied," who wrote several plays of con-siderable merit, also published a great many songs under the title, " Leyer und Schwert" ("Lyre and Sword"). Karl Theodor Korner was the son of veiy respectable parents, of Saxony. He was born in 1791, and had as a lad the happiness to be acquainted with the great Schiller. Although somewhat delicate, he was a handsome and accomplished youth, and gave promise of immense intellectual strength. He studied with success at the universities of Leipsic, Berlin, and Vienna, and at the age of twenty appeared as poet with a tragedy that had a large measure of popularity. He had known Schiller and Goethe, and now became intimate with Humboldt and Schegel.
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