Never that House to earth else! Sense returned—

The act conceived, adventured and complete,

They bore away to an obscure retreat

Mother and child—Retrude's self not slain"

(Nor even here Taurello moved) "though pain

Was fled: and what assured them most 't was fled,

All pain, was, if they raised the pale hushed head

'T would turn this way and that, waver awhile,

And only settle into its old smile—

(Graceful as the disquieted water-flag