Died out and away in the leafy wraps!

Wall upon wall are between us: life

And song should away from heart to heart!

I—prison-bird, with a ruddy strife

At breast, and a lip whence storm-notes start—

Hold on, hope hard in the subtle thing

That 's spirit: though cloistered fast, soar free;

Account as wood, brick, stone, this ring

Of the rueful neighbors, and—forth to thee!

OF PACCHIAROTTO, AND HOW HE WORKED IN DISTEMPER