Grew ever, as if the many there indeed,

More left behind and most who should succeed,—

Simply in virtue of their mouths and eyes,

Petty enjoyments and huge miseries,—

Mingled with, and made veritably great

Those chiefs: he overlooked not Mainard's state

Nor Concorezzi's station, but instead

Of stopping there, each dwindled to be head

Of infinite and absent Tyrolese

Or Paduans; startling all the more, that these