Es war einmal ein Aal Der meinte, er sei aus Stahl Er ging in vollem Frieden Stracks in ein Waffenarsenal Und bat, man solle fürs Vaterland Einen Ehrendolch aus ihm schmieden Es heißt, daß er's nicht überstand.
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- by Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956), no title, appears in Tierverse [a long poem split into stanzas], no. 12 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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