"Sir, what if I turned Christian? It might be.

The fact is, I am troubled in my mind,

Beset and pressed hard by some novel thoughts.

This your Arezzo is a limited world;

There 's a strange Pope,—'t is said, a priest who thinks.

Rome is the port, you say: to Rome I go.

I will live alone, one does so in a crowd,

And look into my heart a little." "Lent

Ended,"—I told friends,—"I shall go to Rome."

One evening I was sitting in a muse