"I would he had continu'd to his country
As he began, and not unknit, himself,
The noble knot he made."
Coriolanus, Act IV., Scene 2.
"His Majesty discriminates between the Prince BISMARCK of former times, and of to-day, and is anxious that his Government should avoid everything which might tend to diminish, in the eyes of the German nation, the familiar figure of its greatest Statesman."—Instructions to Imperial German Representatives abroad:—
Can this be he who "At the Gates"[1]
Of Janus' Temple stood of old,
Protective, vigilant, and bold,
As one who calmly dares—and waits?
"So fancy limns him, who'll not cease