On which the Hohenzollern genus budded
In all that noble list
Has come across a single egoist.
They loved their people better than their throne;
Lightly they sat on it, dispensing Freedom;
They never said, "Your souls are not your own,
But simply there in case your King should need 'em;"
They would have thought it odd
To want to be regarded as a god.
Thus have I served my land; and if a wave