When the world says of me, 'He is dead,' I shall have just
awaked from death. There above begins the true life; what is here so
called is only a pitiful prologue. We live here only that we may learn
to wish for death. Oh, my Laura! I shall soon live, love, and be happy."

"Oh, take me with you, my beloved," cried Laura, kneeling before him,
dissolved in tears. "Leave me not alone--it is so sad, so solitary in
this cold world! Take me with you, my beloved!"

He heard her not! Death had already touched him with the point of his
dark wings, and spread his mantle over him. His spirit struggled with
the exhausted body and panted to escape. He no longer heard when Laura
called, but he still lived: his eyes were wide open and he spoke
again. But they were single, disconnected words, which belonged to
the dreamland and the forms of the invisible world which his almost
disembodied spirit now looked upon.

Once he said, in a loud voice, and this time he looked with full
consciousness upon Laura, "I close my life--a life of sorrow.
Winterfeldt has shortened my days, but I die content in knowing that
so bad, so dangerous a man is no longer in the army." [Footnote: The
prince's own words. He died the 12th of June, 1758, at thirty-six years
of age. As his adjutant, Von Hagen, brought the news of his death to the
king, Frederick asked, "Of what disease did my brother die?"

"Grief and shame shortened his life," said the officer. Frederick turned
his back on him without a reply, and Von Hagen was never promoted.

The king erected a monument to Winterfeldt, Ziethen, and Schwerin, but
he left it to his brother Henry to erect one to the Prince of Prussia.
This was done in Reinenz, where a lofty pyramid was built in honor of
the heroes of the Seven Years' War. The names of all the generals,
and all the battles they had gained were engraven upon it, and it was
crowned by a bust of Augustus William, the great-grandfather of the
present King of Prussia.

The king erected a statue to Winterfeldt, and forgot his brother, and
now Prince Henry forgot to place Winterfeldt's name among the heroes
of the war. When the monument was completed, the prince made a speech,
which was full of enthusiastic praise of his beloved brother, so early
numbered with the dead. Prince Henry betrayed by insinuation the strifes
and difficulties which always reigned between the king and himself;
he did not allude to the king during his speech, and did not class hi