What o' the way to the end?—the end crowns all.

The judges judged aright i' the main, gave me

The uttermost of my heart's desire, a truce

From torture and Arezzo, balm for hurt,

With the quiet nuns,—God recompense the good!

Who said and sang away the ugly past.

And, when my final fortune was revealed,

What safety, while, amid my parents' arms,

My babe was given me! Yes, he saved my babe:

It would not have peeped forth, the bird-like thing,