Minions, oppose not his career!
He seeks no slaughter, but of deer.
Yet will he pass unquestion’d by:
Raise but your weapons and ye die!
Start not fair maids! your path pursue
Unharm’d; he guards its peace for you;
And cheers, on each occasion kind,
In age or want, the hamlet hind.
Here, warriors, to the Forest turn,
True courage and its use to learn!