I serve not

"Under COMINIUS," nay!—yet since he stands

There, where I made firm footing amidst chaos,

Stands in smug comfort where we Titans struggled—

MOLTKE, and I, and the great Emperor,—

Struggled for vantage, which he owes to us;—

Since he stands there, and I in shadow sit,

Silenced and chidden, I half feel I serve,

Whom he would bid to second. Second him,

In that Imperial Policy whose vast