But not for this wouldst thou reproach the King!

Reproach him? cried Siverian; ... I reproach

My child, ... my noble boy, ... whom every tongue

Bless’d at that hour, ... whose love fill’d every heart

With joy, and every eye with joyful tears!

My brave, my beautiful, my generous boy!

Brave, beautiful, and generous as he was,

Never so brave, so beautiful, so great

As then, ... not even on that glorious day,

When on the field of victory, elevate