Shewed and distinguished them, with bickering glance

And gemlike fires, brighter or undiscerned.

As when the sun strikes on a sheet of foam

The whole is radiant, but the myriad globes

Are red or green or blue, with rainbow light

Caught in the gauzy texture of their coats,—

So differed they. Then, as I gazed, and saw

The host before me was of men, and I

In a like crowd of women stood apart,

The judgment, which had tarried in my thought,