is all obedient To Friedland's captains; and its brave commanders. Bred in one school, and nurtured with one milk, Are all excited by one heart and soul. They are strangers on the soil they tread. The service is their only house and home. No zeal inspires them for their country's cause, For thousands like myself, were born abroad; Nor care they for the Emperor, for one half, Deserting other service, fled to ours, Indifferent what their banner, whether 'twere The Double Eagle, Lily, or the Lion;[A] Yet one sole man can rein this fiery host, By equal rule, by equal love and fear, Blending the many-nationed whole in one. Was it, forsooth, the Emperor's majesty That gave the army ready to his hand, And only sought a leader for it? No! The army then had no existence. He, Friedland, it was who called it into being, And gave it to his sovereign--but receiving No army at his hand;--nor did the Emperor Give Wallenstein to us as General. No, It was from Wallenstein we first received The Emperor as our master and our sovereign; And he, he only, binds us to our banner. [A] That is to say, the standard of the Emperor, of France, or of Sweden. [Sidenote: 1632 § 7. He receives full powers.] Wallenstein at first accepted the command for three months only. In April it was permanently conferred on him. The Emperor was practically set aside in favour of a dictator. [Sidenote: § 8. The Saxons driven out of Bohemia.] Wallenstein turned first upon the Saxons. In one hand he held the olive branch, in the other the sword. On May 21st his emissary was offering peace on the terms of the retractation of the Edict of Restitution. On the 22d Wallenstein himself fell upon the Saxon garrison of Prague, and forced it to surrender. It was a plain hint to John George to make his mind up quickly. Before long the Saxons had been driven out of the whole of Bohemia. [Sidenote: § 9. But John George will not treat alone.] John George loved peace dearly, and he had joined Sweden sorely against his will. But he was a man of his word, and he had promised Gustavus not to come to terms with the enemy without his consent. He forwarded Wallenstein's propositions to Gustavus. [Sidenote: § 10. Demands of Gustavus.] No man was so ready as Gustavus to change his plans in all matters of secondary importance, as circumstances might require. In the face of Wallenstein's armament and of the hesitations of the Saxon court, he at once abandoned all thought of asking that the Rhine bishoprics should remain in his hands. He was ready to assent to the solution of religious questions which satisfied Wallenstein and John George. For himself, he expected the cession of at least part of Pomerania, in order to protect himself from a future naval attack proceeding from the Baltic ports. The Elector of Brandenburg had claims upon Pomerania; but he might be satisfied with some of the bishoprics which it had been agreed to leave in Protestant hands.