A wink of eye would have detained me once,

Body and soul your slave; and now, thank God,

Your fawningest of prayers, your frightfulest

Of curses—neither would avail to turn

My footstep for a moment!"

"Prayer, then, tries

No such adventure. Let us cast about

For something novel in expedient: take

Command,—what say you? I profess myself

One fertile in resource. Commanding, then,