II.

The Awakening of the Gods.

The Awakening of the Gods.

The following verses, written in October 1870, were first published in the Scotsman newspaper, in the early days of November of that same wonderful year, under the title of "The Franco-German War, from the Northern Mythic Stand-Point." At that date the siege of Paris by the Germans was beginning to drag its slow length along; but in due time the prediction with which the poem concludes was literally fulfilled.

When Thor, in this latest but not last incarnation, went on his journey, he had not only the Hammer, but the Belt and the Gauntlets with him. ^* As now-a-days we call the Hammer Moltke, so the Belt we name Bismark, and the Gauntlets Von Roon.