THE BROWNIES IN
GERMANY.

  

The Brownies visited ere long;

Its lovely rivers to behold,

And ramble through the castles old
That crumbling into ruins stand

On every peak or point of land.

To highest towers they tried to go

To view the country stretched below,
And as they climbed awaked the fears
Of owls and bats that there for years
In gloomy halls had moped and drowsed
Where dukes and barons once caroused.
And while the massive walls they scanned,
For prison and for palace planned,

They moralized on what they saw,

On ancient force and modern law.

Said one: ‘In days gone by, no doubt,
Through these old gates oft sallied out

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