If you please

If you please,

think me an autocrat... a callous, unyielding idiot.

That,

I am not.

I cannot move the winds or change

the political tides,

small and weak am I,

nor have I much less caused Brexit.

Why do you charge me thus with false accusations?

Have I done anything amiss?
Do you not know that France is always dear to me

unless I face dire calamity?

How are you in that Land of Roland?

Does it seem different somehow,

relative to its motion?

Please, have pity on me for all the world

seems to go against me for a 

petit sin.