Reads, orders, counsels:—but he rests sometimes,—

I see him stand and eat, sleep stretched an hour

On the lynx-skins yonder; hold his bared black arms

Into the sun from the tent-opening; laugh

When his horse drops the forage from his teeth

And neighs to hear him hum his Moorish songs.

That man believes in Florence, as the saint

Tied to the wheel believes in God.

Brac. How strange!

You too have thought that!