Or the wattled cote where the fowlers spread

Their gear on the rock's bare juts.

It has some pretension too, this front,

With its bit of fresco half-moon-wise

Set over the porch, Art's early wont:

'T is John in the Desert, I surmise,

But has borne the weather's brunt—

Not from the fault of the builder, though,

For a pent-house properly projects

Where three carved beams make a certain show,