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Identifier: austriahungary00mitt (find matches)
Title: Austria-Hungary
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Mitton, G. E. (Geraldine Edith)
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Publisher: London A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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e two are known 7 50 AUSTRIA-HUNGARY as ausbruch and maslas. Tokay varies frompale yellow to rich gold in colour, but red winesare produced in Transylvania and elsewhere. Many are the drinking songs of Hungary, butvery difficult to translate in the spirit of the original.Here is a characteristic one : WINE SONG Away with grief, away with pain, Let us bathe our throats in wine,And quaff it to a tuneful strain. Wine for me—the joyous wine,Whose sap can make one strong.Who drinks not wine, the Magyar nameTo him may not belong ! The fish loves water for its part, No fishs shape is mine !For me the wine that warms the heart Born beside Tokays vine.Whats water unto me ?Whoever drinks not wineNo Magyar can be. Cold beer the Germans swill, We quaff the grape with song,For beer from water they distil, Two pints a penny strong—Wine to me bring here,Who drinks it not, the Magyar nameHe holds not ever dear. Hungary ranks high among wine-producingcountries, at least a million acres being under
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THE COUNTRY OF HUNGARY 51 cultivation of the vine, while the Tokay wine islimited to that grown within an area of abouttwenty square miles. In contrast to the stern heights of the mountainsthe Great Plain of Hungary, the Alfold, which hasbeen called the heart and brain and soul ofHungary, is a startling contrast. It is 35,000square miles in area, and the soil is rich, so that itlies like an oasis amid the encircling heights. It isthe greatest plain in Europe and is at an averageheight of 350 feet above the sea. Quantities ofcorn are grown here, but in some places the groundis still too swampy for such cultivation, and thepeople live by gathering the reeds and rushes withwhich to make mats, and osiers for baskets. On the far-reaching Alfold it is the majestic Nothingthat awes and impresses you. There are neither trees norpastures, neither hills nor dales, neither flocks nor people.Simply miles and miles of nothing, arched over by the blueof heaven, but if you look closely you will find

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