J’ai vu cette grande image de l’Italie se relever de la fange où les Allemands la retiennent plongée 2 ; elle étendait ses bras meurtris et encore à demi chargés de chaînes vers son roi et son libérateur.
I saw that mighty figure of Italy raise herself from the mire in which the Germans keep her plunged; [Footnote: The speaker is carried away by passion; he is rendering in prose some lines of the famous Monti.] she stretched out her mangled arms still half loaded with chains towards her King and Liberator.