PROTUS
Among these latter busts we count by scores,
Half-emperors and quarter-emperors.
Bach with his bay-leaf fillet, loose-thonged vest,
Lorie and low-browed Gorgon on the breast,—
One loves a baby face, with violets there,
Violets instead of laurel in the hair,
As those were all the little locks could bear.
Now read here. "Protus ends a period
Of empery beginning with a god;