Round a pavilion. How he stood!

In truth

When greatest and brightest, bursts.

No prophecy had come to pass: his youth

In its prime now—and where was homage poured

Upon Sordello?—born to be adored,

And suddenly discovered weak, scarce made

To cope with any, cast into the shade

By this and this. Yet something seemed to prick

And tingle in his blood; a sleight—a trick—