And if ye find ... Ah God, I know not, I!...

Bedded in store of rotten fig-leaves soft,

And corded up in a tight olive-frail,

Some lump, ah God, of lapis lazuli,

Big as a Jew's head cut off at the nape,

Blue as a vein o'er the Madonna's breast....

Sons, all have I bequeathed you, villas, all,

That brave Frascati-villa with its bath,

So, let the blue lump poise between my knees,

Like God the Father's globe on both his hands