Your law-courts stand, your records frown a-row:

What if I rove and rummage?" "—Why, you 'll waste

Your pains and end as wise as you began!"

Every one snickered: "names and facts thus old

Are newer much than Europe news we find

Down in to-day's Diario. Records, quotha?

Why, the French burned them, what else do the French?

The rap-and-rending nation! And it tells

Against the Church, no doubt,—another gird

At the Temporality, your Trial, of course?"