Alas! it was not always so.
But now I cannot catch his eye,
And, when I come, he's prompt to go.
"Il me reverra." So I said
When I resigned, his love to try,
But see how WILHELM turns his head!
We never speak as we pass by!
Not indispensable! Absurd!
I built the Empire, made the Crown.
Of Emperor WILHELM who had heard