Where with her blood thy shame was seal’d.

E’en I—though on that fatal plain

Lies my heart’s brother with the slain;

Though, reft of his heroic worth,

My spirit dwells alone on earth;

And when all other grief is past,

Must this be cherish’d to the last—

Will lead thy battles, guard thy throne,

With faith unspotted as his own;

Nor in thy noon of fame recall