All ordinary hues that softening blend

Such natures with the level. Apprehend

Which sinner is, which saint, if I allot

Hell, Purgatory, Heaven, a blaze or blot,

To those you doubt concerning! I enwomb

Some wretched Friedrich with his red-hot tomb;

Some dubious spirit, Lombard Agilulph

With the black chastening river I engulf!

Some unapproached Matilda I enshrine

With languors of the planet of decline—