Rafael,—to sit beside the feet of such,

Unspurned because unnoticed, then reward

Their toleration—mercy overmuch—

By stealing from the throne-step to the fools

Curious outside the gateway, all-agape

To learn by what procedure, in the schools

Of Art, a merest man in outward shape

May learn to be Correggio! Old and young,

These learners got their lesson: Art was just

A safety-screen—(Art, which Correggio's tongue