How light soe’er be the word that hath flitted + 

From thy lips, it is weighty, as coming from thee. + 

To thy keeping a nation’s weal is committed: + 

Of thy deeds, good or ill, many watchers there be. + 

Be thy spirit a flower of chivalry. + 

If thou wilt that report true-royal declare thee, + 

No niggard be thou: like a wise timoneer + 

Thy sails spread wide, that the breeze may bear thee + 

Onward. Let time-serving guile not ensnare thee + 

By flattery, friend! Nought save the sincere + 

Praise that, when mortals are no more here, + 