The narrow Judengasse: gables frown

Around a humpbacked usurer's, where brown

And dirty in a corner long it lay,

Heaped in a pile of riff-raff, such as—say,

Retables done in tempora and old

Panels by Wohlgemuth; stiff paintings cold

Of martyrs and apostles,—names forgot,—

Holbeins and Dürers, say; a haloed lot

Of praying saints, madonnas: these, perchance,

'Mid wine-stained purples, mothed; an old romance;