And how your pictures must descend

To see each other, friend with friend!

Oh, could you take them by surprise,

You 'd find Schidone's eager Duke

Doing the quaintest courtesies

To that prim saint by Haste-thee-Luke!

And, deeper into her rock den,

Bold Castelfranco's Magdalen

You 'd find retreated from the ken

Of that robed counsel-keeping Ser—