Of fancies, which were fancies and no more;

Never again for him and for the crowd

A common law was challenged and allowed

If calmly reasoned of, howe'er denied

By a mad impulse nothing justified

Short of Apollo's presence. The divorce

Is clear: why needs Sordello square his course

By any known example? Men no more

Compete with him than tree and flower before.

Himself, inactive, yet is greater far