Should she o'er-sound the storm their wings have raised?

[Sitting down.]

Great Lord! how lonely I become within

These now uncheerful towers! O'er all the earth

No shield have I,--no mutual feeling left!

Tis true that those around me all are kind,

And well I know they love me,--more, indeed,

Than my poor merits claim. Yet, even though

They raised me to my Asdolf's royal throne,

As being the last of all his line,--ah me!