[Footnote 89: His merits and hopes are summed up in an
epitaph of thirty-eight-verses, of which Charlemagne
declares himself the author, (Concil. tom. viii. p. 520.)
Post patrem lacrymans Carolus haec carmina scripsi. Tu mihi
dulcis amor, te modo plango pater ... Nomina jungo simul
titulis, clarissime, nostra Adrianus, Carolus, rex ego,
tuque pater.
The poetry might be supplied by Alcuin; but the tears, the
most glorious tribute, can only belong to Charlemagne.]