Shook heads and waited for a miracle,

Or went their way, left Virtue to her fate.

Just this one rough and ready man leapt forth!

—Was found, sole anti-Fabius (dare I say)

Who restored things, with no delay at all,

Qui haud cunctando rem restituit! He,

He only, Caponsacchi 'mid a crowd,

Caught Virtue up, carried Pompilia off

Through gaping impotence of sympathy

In ranged Arezzo: what you take for pitch