I think I never was at any time

A Christian, as you nickname all the world,

Me among others: truce to nonsense now!

Name me, a primitive religionist—

As should the aboriginary be

I boast myself, Etruscan, Aretine,

One sprung—your frigid Virgil's fieriest word—

From fauns and nymphs, trunks and the heart of oak,

With—for a visible divinity—

The portent of a Jove Ægiochus