From the sire, her two-weeks' infant orphaned thus,

And—with best smile of all reserved for him—

Pardon that sire and husband from the heart.

A miracle, so tell your Molinists!

There she lies in the long white lazar-house.

Rome has besieged, these two days, never doubt,

Saint Anna's where she waits her death, to hear

Though but the chink o' the bell, turn o' the hinge

When the reluctant wicket opes at last,

Lets in, on now this and now that pretence,