And laughed as from his brow Sordello took

The crown, and laid on the bard's breast, and said

It was a crown, now, fit for poet's head?)

—Continue. Nor the prayer quite fruitless fell,

A plant they have, yielding a three-leaved bell

Which whitens at the heart ere noon, and ails

Till evening; evening gives it to her gales

To clear away with such forgotten things

As are an eyesore to the morn: this brings

Him to their mind, and hears his very name.