So leads arm waveringly, lets fall wide

O' the mark its finger, sent to find and fix

Truth at the bottom, that deceptive speck.

With this Half-Rome,—the source of swerving, call

Over-belief in Guido's right and wrong

Rather than in Pompilia's wrong and right:

Who shall say how, who shall say why? 'T is there—

The instinctive theorizing whence a fact

Looks to the eye as the eye likes the look.

Gossip in a public place, a sample-speech.