This postcard is part of a set that shows a Prussian cavalryman wounded in battle, probably set in the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71). <\/p>\n
The poem at the top of the picture, entitled \u201cSunrise \u2026 Sunrise\u201d, romanticizes the soldier\u2019s encounter with death. It reads:<\/p>\n
\u201cLie still, lie still
\nAnd accept the fate God wills!
\nI will fight bravely
\nAnd if death is my fate
\nI will die a valiant cavalryman.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This postcard is part of a set that shows a Prussian cavalryman wounded in battle, probably set in the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71). The poem at the top of the picture, entitled \u201cSunrise \u2026 Sunrise\u201d, romanticizes the soldier\u2019s encounter with death. It reads: \u201cLie still, lie still And accept the fate God wills! I will fight … Continue reading Morgenrot….Morgenrot<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1974,"featured_media":404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1900s"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ger297-f18\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/305\/2018\/10\/SS36868_36868_43486099.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ger297-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ger297-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ger297-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ger297-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1974"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ger297-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ger297-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1422,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ger297-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions\/1422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ger297-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ger297-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ger297-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/ger297-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}