But—shop each day and all day long!

Friend, your good angel slept, your star

Suffered eclipse, fate did you wrong!

From where these sorts of treasures are,

There should our hearts be—Christ, how far!

PISGAH-SIGHTS

When sanctioning a volume of Selections from his poems, Browning made a third of Pisgah-Sights to consist of the Proem to La Saisiaz.

I

Over the ball of it,

Peering and prying,