‘Hassgesang gegen England’ (‘Song of Hate against England’) was written and published in 1914. Its author, Ernst Lissauer, was a German-Jewish poet of nationalist political views:
French and Russian, they matter not,
A blow for a blow and a shot for a shot.
We love them not, we hate them not,
We hold the Weichsel and Vosges gate.
We have but one and only hate,
We love as one, we hate as one,
We have one foe and one alone.He is known to you all, he is known to you all.
He crouches behind the dark grey flood,
Full of envy, of rage, of craft, of gall,
Cut off by waves that are thicker than blood…Come, hear the word, repeat the word.
Throughout the Fatherland, make it heard.
We will never forego our hate,
We have all but a single hate,
We love as one, we hate as one,
We have one foe and one alone – England!…
A blow for a blow, a shot for a shot,
We fight the battle with bronze and steel,
And the time that is coming Peace will seal.
You, we will hate with a lasting hate,
We will never forego our hate,
Hate by water and hate by land,
Hate of the head and hate of the hand,
Hate of the hammer and hate of the crown,
Hate of 70 million choking down.We love as one, we hate as one,
We have one foe and one alone – England!