Covering her child: when, as they lifted her,

Cleaving the tumult, mighty, mightier

And mightiest Taurello's cry outbroke,

Leapt like a tongue of fire that cleaves the smoke,

Midmost to cheer his Mantuans onward—drown

His colleague Ecelin's clamor, up and down

The disarray: failed Adelaide see then

Who was the natural chief, the man of men?

Outstripping time, her infant there burst swathe,

Stood up with eyes haggard beyond the scathe