Stopped utterance, from East, West, North and South,

"Rending the welkin with their shout of 'Nay—

No heaven as yet for our instructor! Grant

Five hundred years on earth for Perida!'

"And so long did he keep instructing! Want

Our Master no such misery! I but take

Three months of life marital. Ministrant

"Be thou of so much, Poet! Bold I make,

Swordsman, with thy frank offer!—and conclude,

Statist, with thine! One year,—ye will not shake