Save hope of that supreme step which, descried

Earliest, was meant still to remain untried

Only to give you heart to take your own

Step, and there stay—leaving the rest alone?

Where is the vanity? Why count as one

The first step, with the last step? What is gone

Except Rome's aëry magnificence,

That last step you'd take first?—an evidence

You were God: be man now! Let those glances fall!

The basis, the beginning step of all,