| James and Mary Ford, eds. Every Day in the Year. 1902. | | | | May 14 | | Henry IV | | By Francis Saltus Saltus (1849–1889) |
| | | | Henry the Fourth, better known as King Henry of Navarre, was assassinated May 14, 1610, by a fanatic named Ravaillac. |
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“LONG live our king, good Harry of Navarre!” | |
| Shouted the soldiery through Ivry’s heat; | |
| Thou led’st them on to victory complete, | |
| Proud in the glamor of thy Huguenot star! | |
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| Good king, thy glorious deeds immortal are; | 5 |
| France, old in years, thy memory still doth greet, | |
| And peasants love thy great name to repeat, | |
| Sapient in council, valorous in war. | |
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| I see thy Béarn face as histories tell, | |
| Frank, open, winning, resolutely free; | 10 |
| I see thee armed with helmet and poitrel. | |
| And then again, in thy broad Tuilerie, | |
| I hear thy joyous oath “Ventre-saint-Grés,” | |
| And see thee kiss thy swan-necked Gabrielle! | | | |
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