Or slow, no matter,—still the certainty of change,

Conviction we shall find the false, where'er we range,

In art no less than nature: or what if wrist were numb,

And over-tense the muscle, abductor of the thumb,

Taxed by those tenths' and twelfths' unconscionable stretch?

Howe'er it came to pass, I soon was far to fetch—

Gone off in company with Music!

XCIV

Whither bound

Except for Venice? She it was, by instinct found