So, looked outside for light and life.

And love

Did in a trice turn up with life and light,—

The man with the aureole, sympathy made flesh,

The all-consoling Caponsacchi, Sir!

A priest—what else should the consoler be?

With goodly shoulder-blade and proper leg,

A portly make and a symmetric shape,

And curls that clustered to the tonsure quite.

This was a bishop in the bud, and now