Proved feasible, be counselled! thought enough,—

Slumber, Sordello! any day will serve:

Were it a less digested plan! how swerve

To-morrow? Meanwhile eat these sun-dried grapes,

And watch the soaring hawk there! Life escapes

Merrily thus.

He thoroughly read o'er

His truchman Naddo's missive six times more,

Praying him visit Mantua and supply

A famished world.