alas for Celin!" Before him ride his vassals, in order two by two, With ashes on their turbans spread, most pitiful to view; Behind him his four sisters, each wrapped in sable veil, Between the tambour's dismal strokes take up their doleful tale; When stops the muffled drum, ye hear their brotherless bewailing, And all the people, far and near, cry"Alas!

where heroes press And cowards bend the knee, Arminius is not brotherless, His brethren are the free.

Like a brotherless hermit, the last of its race, All wild in the silence of nature, it drew, From each wandering sun-beam, a lonely embrace For the night-weed and thorn overshadow'd the place, Where the flower of my forefathers grew.

Also brotherless.

In the first place, it must be understood that she was motherless, brotherless and sisterless.

"My dear boy," said he, clapping me on the shoulder, "she is motherless and brotherless, and I am an old man.