Or cull grapes purple-clustering for the hand
Of Isabel—now plum or almond—now
The green and luscious fig, the peach with blushing brow.
XLIV.
And quiet smiled the old man, pleased to see
A pair so formed for mutual happiness,
So beautiful in different quality,
Whom destined wedlock’s bonds ere long to bless;
And as he feasted on their comeliness,
At thought of Carlos and of Isidor