O'er the hushed multitude: I count—One, two—


Have ye seen, Judges, have ye, lights of law,—

When it may hap some painter, much in vogue

Throughout our city nutritive of arts,

Ye summon to a task shall test his worth,

To manufacture, as he knows and can,

A work may decorate a palace-wall,

Affords my lords their Holy Family,—

Hath it escaped the acumen of the Court