O heart of fire! misjudged by wilful man, + 

Thou flower of Jesse’s race! + 

What woe was thine, when thou and Jonathan + 

Last greeted face to face! + 

He doom’d to die, thou on us to impress + 

The portent of a blood-stain’d holiness. + 

Yet it was well:⁠—for so, ’mid cares of rule + 

And crime’s encircling tide, + 

A spell was o’er thee, zealous one, to cool + 

Earth-joy and kingly pride; + 

With battle-scene and pageant, prompt to blend + 

The pale calm spectre of a blameless friend. + 

Ah! had he lived, before thy throne to stand, + 

Thy spirit keen and high + 

Sure it had snapp’d in twain love’s slender band, + 

So dear in memory; + 

Paul, of his comrade reft, the warning gives⁠— + 

He lives to us who dies, he is but lost who lives. + 