Patience beneath enormity of ill,

I hear to my confusion, woe is me,

Sinner that I stand, shamed in the walk and gait

I have practised and grown old in, by a child!"—

Guido's friends shrug the shoulder, "Just the same

Prodigious absolute calm in the last hour

Confirms us,—being the natural result

Of a life which proves consistent to the close.

Having braved heaven and deceived earth throughout,

She braves still and deceives still, gains thereby