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,