Humble but self-sustaining, calm and cold,

Having, as one who puts his hand to the plough,

Renounced the over-vivid family-feel—

Poor brother Guido! All too plain, he pined

Amid Rome's pomp and glare for dinginess

And that dilapidated palace-shell

Vast as a quarry and, very like, as bare—

Since to this comes old grandeur nowadays—

Or that absurd wild villa in the waste

O' the hillside, breezy though, for who likes air,