Blissful bride of a blissful heir,
Bride of the heir of the kings of the sea.
O joy to the people and joy to the throne,
Come to us, love us, and make us your own;
For Saxon or Dane or Norman we,
Teuton or Celt, or whatever we be,
We are each all Dane in our welcome of thee, Alexandra!
—Welcome to Alexandra. Tennyson.
Hamlet’s soliloquy will find expression in moderately low key when one grasps the idea that Hamlet is meditating upon:
To be, or not to be,—that is the question;