Steadying itself, remarked they, in the quag

On either side their path)—when suffered look

Down on her child. They marched: no sign once shook

The company's close litter of crossed spears

Till, as they reached Goito, a few tears

Slipped in the sunset from her long black lash,

And she was gone. So far the action rash;

No crime. They laid Retrude in the font,

Taurello's very gift, her child was wont

To sit beneath—constant as eve he came