Of ending word and word, to every belle

In Croisic's bounds; these, brisk as any finch,

He twittered till his fame had reached as well

Guérande as Batz; but there fame stopped, for—curse

On fortune—outside lay the universe!

LXXII

That 's Paris. Well,—why not break bounds, and send

Song onward till it echo at the gates

Of Paris whither all ambitions tend,

And end too, seeing that success there sates