Round the King it became more and more
silent; the heroes who had fought his battles, the
friends who had laughed and with him,
sank one after the other into the grave ; loneliness,
the curse of the great, came over him.
silent; the heroes who had fought his battles, the
friends who had laughed and with him,
sank one after the other into the grave ; loneliness,
the curse of the great, came over him.
Treitschke - 1915 - Confessions of Frederick the Great
