It may be that a more subtle person would find for this thing a reason of greater subtlety: but such is the reason that I find, and that liketh me best.

Give unto us this day the daily manna Without which, in this desert where we dwell, He must go backward who would most advance.

He whom you see-along the downward arc- was William, and the land that mourns his death, for living Charles and Frederick, now laments; now he has learned how Heaven loves the just ruler, and he would show this outwardly as well, so radiantly visible.

Not one drop of blood is left inside my veins that does not throb: I recognize signs of the ancient flame.

A prayer may chance to rise From one whose heart lives in the grace of God. A prayer from any other is unheeded.

Behold a God more powerful than I who comes to rule over me.

Without hope we live in desire.