From Vive la Reine.
~ from Capet, éveille-toi! ShareA fair child fleeing from the world's fierce hate,In his blue eye the shade of sorrow sate,
His golden hair hung all dishevelled downOn wasted cheeks that told a mournful story,
And angels twined him with the innocent's crown,The martyr's palm of glory.The virgin souls that to the Lamb are near,Called through the clouds with voices heavenly clear,
"God hath prepared a glory for thy brow;Rest in his arms, and all ye hosts that sing
His praised ever on untired string,Chant, for a mortal comes among ye now;
Do homage,--'tis a king!"
4 comments:
Poor Louis.
One thing bothers me,Elena, why didn`t Marie Antoinette send her children to safety? And when she let them stay with her, did she knew she kept them to their death?
Was she prepared to sacrifice her own children for her belief?
Nesta Webster says that early on Louis and Antoinette agreed that they would not allow their children to be separated from them, for fear that they would be used as pawns by different factions. They never imagined the inhumanity that would take a child away from his mother and abuse him.
But i read some place that when the english Duke of Dorset said to MA that she might have one mor eson after her first died, she asked why "so the duke d`Orleans shall kill him too?"
Maybe I should not take it so litterary, but she seemed to think similar thought on other occasions too?
Violet, each of her children were precious to her and she would not want to scarifice any of them. She kept them at her side as long as she could.
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