His claim to glory on?—afraid

His fellow-men should give him rank

By mere tentatives which he shrank

Smitten at heart from, all the more,

That gazers pressed in to adore!

'Shall I be judged by only these?'

If such his soul's capacities,

Even while he trod the earth,—think, now.

What pomp in Buonarroti's brow,

With its new palace-brain where dwells