Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 602
es of their patrons as well.Thus they ceased to be beggars. Martin Luther himself as a boy had been one of these singers,and it was largely due to his influence that theold custom of begging entirely passed away.There is a famous picture of Luther as a sing-ing-boy in Eisenach, where his song… … AN OLD HOUSE OF LUTHER S TIME.The silvery voices of the singing-boys often ring under these old roofs. the whole German empire where this music canbe heard. Once each year the singing-boys goto Eisenach and sing before the Emperor in thegreat hall of the historic castle of the Wartburg,where the…
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