Of Guido,—just as an instance to the point,

Naught more,—how I had a whole store of strengths

Eating into my heart, which craved employ,

And she, perhaps, need of a finger's help,—

And yet there was no way in the wide world

To stretch out mine and so relieve myself,—

How when the page o' the "Summa" preached its best,

Her smile kept glowing out of it, as to mock

The silence we could break by no one word,—

There came a tap without the chamber-door,