Hearth of his room. The head's religious gold,

The soft severity of the nun face,

Made of the room an apostolic place

Revered and feared.—

Like some lived scene I see

That gothic room; its Flemish tapestry:

Embossed within the marble hearth a shield,

Wreathed round with thistles; in its argent field

Three sable mallets—arms of Herancour—

Carved with the crest, a helm and hands that bore,