Fit to be told that foolish boy," he said,

"But only let Sordello Palma wed,

—Then!"

'T was a dim long narrow place at best:

Yet spring to the summit of success,

Midway a sole grate showed the fiery West,

As shows its corpse the world's end some split tomb—

A gloom, a rift of fire, another gloom,

Faced Palma—but at length Taurello set

Her free; the grating held one ragged jet