Virtue, the creaming honey-wine, quick squeeze

Vice like a biting spirit from the lees

Of life! Together let wrath, hatred, lust,

All tyrannies in every shape, be thrust

Upon this Now, which time may reason out

As mischiefs, far from benefits, no doubt;

But long ere then Sordello will have slipped

Away; you teach him at Goito's crypt,

There 's a blank issue to that fiery thrill.

Stirring, the few cope with the many, still: