Two days since, I reported him as safe,
Re-echoing the conviction of all Rome:
Who could suspect its one deaf ear—the Pope's?
But prejudices grow insuperable,
And that old enmity to Austria, that
Passion for France and France's pageant-king
(Of which, why pause to multiply the proofs
Now scandalously rife in Europe's mouth?)
These fairly got the better in our man
Of justice, prudence, and esprit de corps,