Such graces follow God's best earthly gift!"

Here you put by my guard, pass to my heart

By the home-thrust—"There 's a lie at base of all."

Why, thou exact Prince, is it a pearl or no,

Yon globe upon the Principessa's neck?

That great round glory of pellucid stuff,

A fish secreted round a grain of grit!

Do you call it worthless for the worthless core?

(She does n't, who well knows what she changed for it.)

So, to our brace of burgesses again!