No one has tears for the other’s woes;

No one has mind for the other’s ideas.

We’re our very selves, both in thought and tone,

Ourselves to the spring-board’s uttermost verge,—

And so, if a Kaiser’s to fill the Throne,

It is clear that you are the very man.

Peer.

O would that the devil——!

Begriffenfeldt.

Come, don’t be cast down;