The woman who wakes all this rapture leaned

Flower-like from out her window long enough,

As ranch uncomplemented as uncropped

By comers and goers in Via Vittoria: eh?

'Tis just a flower's fate: past parterre we trip,

Till peradventure some one plucks our sleeve—

"Yon blossom at the brier's end, that's the rose

Two jealous people fought for yesterday

And killed each other: see, there's undisturbed

A pretty pool at the root, of rival red!"