He had, secreted, at his own command
A ready answer to the lord’s demand,—
Yet so it was; and where the secret lay
He interposed and brought it prone to day:
Thus thought the man; and now unto his eyes
An artificial medium he applies,—
Compares the image[184] which should be the test,
And which would rob or give his temples rest:
“Ah! (he exclaim’d) it is, it is the same;”
And having thus discern’d his honor’d name,