Henry of Egna this fair child, had Trent
Once failed the Kaiser's purposes—"we lost
Egna last year, and who takes Egna's post—
Opens the Lombard gate if Friedrich knock?")
Himself espoused the Lady of the Rock
In pure necessity, and, so destroyed
His slender last of chances, quite made void
Old prophecy, and spite of all the schemes
Overt and covert, youth's deeds, age's dreams,
Was sucked into Romano. And so hushed