For safety: one step thence, the street, you know!

Thus far I followed with my gaze. Then, slow,

Near on admiringly, I breathed again,

And—back to that last fancy of the train—

"A danger risked for hope of just a word

With—which of all my nest may be the bird

This poacher covets for her plumage, pray?

Carmen? Juana? Carmen seems too gay

For such adventure, while Juana's grave

—Would scorn the folly. I applaud the knave!