The Works of Lord Byron (ed. Coleridge, Prothero)/Poetry/Volume 7/Ich Dien

by George Gordon Byron

ICH DIEN.

From this emblem what variance your motto evinces,
For the Man is his country's—the Arms are the Prince's!

? 1814.

[From an autograph MS. in the possession of Mr. A. H.
Hallam Murray, now for the first time printed.]