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It fits to format in Xanadu Kubla Khan, stately a regulation of the indicated layer of the pleasure.

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The angle and each work of each work of the angle, where the fixed field not to the interior of flagstone of the halting of the ocean is movement, one of the aspiration in the boat of the boy of est human of the race, that if it gets to be alive. Water and water? That teh of the scale and the cover to clear the place is, where it is reduced. The water and must also drink the acceptance, which requests or with the enemy.

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"Day after Day,Day after day we struck no breath nor motion. As silent as a painted ship, upon a painted ocean. Water water everywhere, but not a drop to drink. Water water everywhere, and all the boards did shrink..."

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Kaching!
You win a year's supply of nothing! Congratulations!

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It came out completely different when I tried it.

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He is decided or the totality follows with the thing, because it is and because,: he is the lobby of the quality. ' the resistance of the attack of the part outpost, this one cooked east heart of anh the mountain, that in the meat of the rage of the wealth is cruel or the difficulty has nevertheless knows? In the ocean the end to consider pain, in instructd of the way in the side? Taking from the conversion, of the direction the eight, as far as the interior of tis ignited, that is the splendid summary is of the importance?

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I came to the contact of a part of the old operation of earth, this one considerable one both indicated and stones to sharpen trunkless of the position of piedini some in the Earth inculta.

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"I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: `Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert."

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Yes, I rather thought the 'trunkless' gave it away.

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That rocks. Do you mind if I friend you, in order to see more of this sort of thing?

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Not in the slightest :) Hello!

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I think I shall make the same request as bursargirl, mind if I friend you?

This translator does do strange things to english poetry:

Half of the league of half of half of one ties of the league in the front part, transmits intelligent brigade

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small small, lucky, we saw the contact of brothers. For, those to extinguish itself, the relative alcohol with me are today my brother

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No problem at all :) *adds back*

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No idea how they managed to bring alcoho into that translation- that started out as "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he who sheds his blood with me today shall be my brother"

blood = alcohol?

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Whisky = water of life = blood? Though it didn't mention translating it into Scottish at any point :)

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*giggle* any guesses on this one?
The warehouse of the God our pleasant queen, lives much stay our queen splendourful, God, to store to the queen

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And this?

Sorrowfully near demons, so that the animal, that is disturbado, the Ohio to take that it decides they to him them devices you of the bullonatura meant to him, of the short situation, of concreteness the resistance and he he hour of the ocean of the situation.

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That's be the national anthem then, but the mind boggles about a warehouse full of queens, perhaps somewhat like the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark.

("We've got Top Men working on the Queen right now. Top Men.")

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Scary thought- top men working on the queen, that would have been her knee operation, no? ;)

Any guesses on this fien national anthem?

Can the ampere hour, word to consider it of the first light of the shovel, of which what we it hailed ferocious this with the buttock to the lustrum of the penumbra much? With which extended lines and stars luminous of dangerous fight, or, ' he, parts of SPUR, that we very left who observed to work to us, gallantly? The red one of the incandescence of and the rocket, of that the gear that went away to the fall of the pump, that blew for above in an air, estimated the end to release the raincoat until the night that our signal of the marcatura was always here. The ampere hour, the form of the word with which temporary the small one of the flag, that with spangles or verziert of rambles ' of free the Earth star and the house of transforms it brave into?

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I like the "buttock to the lustrum of the penumbra"

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Oh, say, can you see
By the dawns early light....

...the home of the brave!
And the land of the free!

Fine national anthem?
It comes a distant and poor second in *my* book.

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SECOND?

My you are generous- even if one were only to include those of the English speaking nations, I would put Scotland's, Ireland's (well, all right, it's in Irish, but there is an English translation) and possibly most others before it. However, these are the only ones I know well enough to comment. If one includes other nations, then I must admit to being quite a fan of our German national anthem too

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Scots and irish?
At least the Americans are friendly & loyal allies :)
I always rather liked the old Soviet national aanthem, actually, although I could nevr understand a word of it.

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I suppose it depends on where you are coming from- being half Irish and half German, and having studied in Edinburgh...

nuff said

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Does Germany still use the 'Deutschland, Deutschland' one? That was a fave when I was little.

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Well, it would be in England.

The National anthem, or 'Song of the Germans' was written in the 19th century, as an idea of wishful thinking, asking the Germans to put aside their differences and agree on the similarities and thereby create a united Germany (this of course was before Bismarck united the different German states).

Hence the first verse stated 'Deutschland Deutschland über alles' (Germany above all). This however was only the first of three verses, but the one that was predominantly sung during the reign of Hitler. Therefore, and to avoid the associations with that time, the first verse, Deutschland Deutschland etc. is no longer sung. The current national anthem comprises of the third verse of the same song, which is "Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit für das deutsche Vaterland" - (Unity and justice and freedom for the German fatherland...)

However, the English have never really caught on to the fact that the second world war is over, so that the fact that Germany's national anthem hasn't been 'Deutschland Deutschland...' for almost 60 years now seems to have been overlooked... ;)

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I don't believe I've ever heard the new anthem, although I rather assumed it must have been changed, bith due to WW2 and also the 40 year partition of the country (I couldn't imagine people singing the same song on both sides of the wall).
However, mention germany to any group of schoolkids and they'll still launch into the tune of 'Gloroius things of thee are spoken'.
A few weeks ago I was actually surprised to see that they're *still* selling 'Commando war Stories for boys' comics, which I thought they'd stopped printing when I was about 8.

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I always rather enjoyed those commando stories...

As for both sides of the wall, well, east Germany did have their own anthem: "Auferstanden aus Ruinen..." which roughly translates as having risen from the ruins... a bit like phoenix I suppose.

The west German (and now united German) anthem retained the old melody, but only uses the third verse.

As to your second point, that is indeed correct. Hoffman von Fallersleben (1798-1874) wrote this song while on the island of Helgoland, which at that time was British. He was a liberal democrat, and was hoping for a united Germany, as Germany at that time was a collection of separate states. It was not so much arrogance, claiming to be better than all other nations, but rather the desire to put aside the differences and unite into one country of German people. The melody he used for this is Joseph Haydn's Opus 76 Nr. 3. It actually only became the national anthem in 1922 when it was declared the national anthem by the then German president, the social democrat Friedrich Ebert.

It was only under the administration of Hitler that it laid claim to superiority over other nations.

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Didn't know the music was by Haydn, but it's also used for the Hymn "Gloroius things of thee are spoken", thus making it one of my favourite hymns when I was small.

I used to love Commando, but there's a part of me thinks "Are you still doing these!?" when i see them.
I'm also tempted to buy them :)

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As a question, then, would that mean that when written, the phrase 'Germany Germany over all' line did not refer to the idea of germany over all other nations (as is usually assumed), but instead to the idea of a greater Germany over-riding all the smaller states that made it up?

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