A Babe so charming?”—“No, indeed,” said he;
“I wonder how he could that look invent,
That seems so sly, and yet so innocent.”
In this long room were various Statues seen,
And Peter gazed thereon with awe-struck mien.
“Why look so earnest, Boy?”—“Because they bring
To me a story of an awful thing.”— 460
“Tell then thy story.”——He, who never stay’d
For words or matter, instantly obey’d.—
“A holy pilgrim to a city sail’d,