The woman wild as Cape Leucadia stand.

II.

For this the Comic Muse exacts of creatures

Appealing to the fount of tears: that they

Strive never to outleap our human features,

And do Right Reason's ordinance obey,

In peril of the hum to laughter nighest.

But prove they under stress of action's fire

Nobleness, to that test of Reason highest,