Meanwhile, if your half-dozen years of life

In store dispose you to forego the strife,

Who takes exception? Only bear in mind,

Ferrara's reached, Goito 's left behind:

If associates trouble you, stand off!

As you then were, as half yourself, desist!

—The warrior-part of you may, an it list,

Finding real falchions difficult to poise,

Fling them afar and taste the cream of joys

By wielding such in fancy,—what is bard