To kill it instantly the thought occurred;

Those naught we grudge nor spare to entertain,

Who o'er our feeling bosoms sov'reign reign:

All I can do is speedily to get,

Another falcon: easily they're met;

And by to-morrow I'll the bird procure.

No, Fred'rick, she replied, I now conjure

You'll think no more about it; what you've done

Is all that fondness could have shown a son;

And whether fate has doomed the child to die,