And he was left at Fano by the beach.

VII.

We were at Fano, and three times we went

To sit and see him in his chapel there,

And drink his beauty to our soul’s content

—My angel with me too: and since I care

For dear Guercino’s fame (to which in power

And glory comes this picture for a dower,

Fraught with a pathos so magnificent),

VIII.