If I withdraw the nerve and strength I gave it in the past?
Can they in sooth imagine that, however they may strive,
Their party possibly can hope my loss to long survive?
’Twould seem they can, and yet—no! no! it surely cannot be;
They must have learned the value of my family and me.
For we’re a clever family, &c.
“And yet how strange it is that though I’ve turned against my chief,
He still exists—such stubbornness is well-nigh past belief;
I’ve told him he must reckon with my family and me,
And yet he has not bowed as yet, not even on one knee.