—"Vanity," Naddo tells you.

Whence contrive

A crowd, now? From these women just alive,

That archer-troop? Forth glided—not alone

Each painted warrior, every girl of stone,

Nor Adelaide (bent double o'er a scroll,

One maiden at her knees, that eve, his soul

Shook as he stumbled through the arras'd glooms

On them, for, 'mid quaint robes and weird perfumes,

Started the meagre Tuscan up,—her eyes,