How would you wait him, stand or step aside,

When next you heard he rolled your way? Enough.

"Giuseppe Caponsacchi!" Guido cried;

And open flew the door: enough again.

Vengeance, you know, burst, like a mountain-wave

That holds a monster in it, over the house,

And wiped its filthy four walls free at last

With a wash of hell-fire,—father, mother, wife,

Killed them all, bathed his name clean in their blood,

And, reeking so, was caught, his friends and he,