Detmold

Und zu ehren der Geschichten tat ein Denkmal man errichten.
Deutschlands Kraft und Einigkeit verkündet es jetzt weit und breit ~ mögen sie nur kommen!

Now, in honor of the story,
A monument they'll raise for glory.
As for pedestal -- they've done it;
But who'll pay for a statue on it
Heaven alone can tell us. *

*Translation by Charles Leland (1872) from
Gaudeamus!: Humorous Poems
By Joseph Viktor von Scheffel
Folksong detailing the 9th Century BC Battle of the Teutoberg Forest in which the Roman general, Publius Quinctilius Varus, who suffered disastrous defeat by Germanic tribes, then took his own life.

Two verses not illustrated in the series come just before this last one:
And the tidings so provoked him,
That half a peacock leg choked him,
And he cried -- beyond control --
"Varus -- Varus -- d---n your soul!
Redde legiones!

His German slave, Hans Schmidt be-christened,
Who in the corner stood and listened,
Remarked, "Der teufel take me wenn
He efer kits dose droops acain,
For tead men ish not lifin."