Not with old Pietro's, Violante's head,

Not his gray horror, her more hideous black—

Go these, devoted to the knife!"

'T is done:

Wherefore should mind misgive, heart hesitate?

He calls to counsel, fashions certain four

Colorless natures counted clean till now,

—Rustic simplicity, uncorrupted youth,

Ignorant virtue! Here 's the gold o' the prime

When Saturn ruled, shall shock our leaden day—