Ludwig Gleim: “TO GENERAL VON STILLE”

Excerpt, “The Poetry of Germany, Consisting from Upwards of Seventy of the Most Celebrated Poets.”  Translated into English Verse by Alfred Baskerville.  1853.

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The Round Table by Adolph von Menzel

Frederick the Great at Sanssouci

Third from the left, in the purple coat, is Voltaire; next to him in the red uniform General Christoph Ludwig von Stille, then the king, Frederick II.

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