And, shattered by those rocks, took hold again,

So kindly blazed it—that same blaze to brood

O'er every cluster of the multitude

Still hazarding new clasps, ties, filaments,

An emulous exchange of pulses, vents

Of nature into nature; till some growth

Unfancied yet, exuberantly clothe

The Ghibellins' wish: the Guelfs' wish.

A surface solid now, continuous, one:

"The Pope, for us the People, who begun