Guarded long the treasure-book and loved it.

Guido Reni dying, all Bologna

Cried, and the world cried too “Ours, the treasure!”

Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.

V.

Dante once prepared to paint an angel:

Whom to please? You whisper “Beatrice.”

While he mused and traced it and retraced it,

(Peradventure with a pen corroded

Still by drops of that hot ink he dipped for,