LXXVII

Scratch, scratch went much laudation of that sane

And sound Tribunal, delegates august

Of Phœbus and the Muses' sacred train—

Whom every poetaster tries to thrust

From where, high-throned, they dominate the Seine:

Fruitless endeavor,—fail it shall and must!

Whereof in witness have not one and all

The Forty voices pealed "Our choice be Paul"?

LXXVIII