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About Lyre and Sword
Lyre and Sword (Ger., Leyer und Schwerdt; modern spelling, Leier und Schwert) is a collection of patriotic poetry by Theodor Körner (1791–1813), which first appeared posthumously in 1814, consisting mostly of poems from the last year of his life. The poet had taken part in the German War of Liberation as a lieutenant in the Lützow Free Corps and fell on August 26, 1813 near Gadebusch. The poems, some of them based on German folk-tunes, were originally sung to the guitar or recited by the poet to his fellow soldiers.
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