Strikes with her sudden paw, and prone falls each

Who patted late her neck superiorly,

Or trifled with those claw-tips velvet-sheathed."

"He's God!" shouts Lucius Varius Rufus: "Man

And worms'-meat any moment!" mutters low

Some Power, admonishing the mortal-born.

Ay, do you mind? There 's meaning in the fact

That whoso conquers, triumphs, enters Rome,

Climbing the Capitolian, soaring thus

To glory's summit,—Publius, do you mark—