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Ferdinand Freiligrath
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“Even now the headsman whets his axe to slay you at the funeral-feast. Courage! a glorious fate is yours! Through Afric and the East Your fame shall be immortal! Kordofán and Yemen With stories of your lord’s exploits and your devotedness shall ring, And future ages rear skull-obelisks to the King Of Congo and his Hundred Women!”
Ferdinand Freiligrath (1810–1876) first seen 1842 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The King of Congo and his Hundred Wives", st. 7. Translated by James Clarence Mangan, Anthologia Germanica (Dublin: William Curry, 1842), vol. ii, pp. 136–8