Sordello: Book The Fourth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Meantime Ferrara lay in rueful case	A
The lady city for whose sole embrace	A
Her pair of suitors struggled felt their arms	B
A brawny mischief to the fragile charms	B
They tugged for one discovering that to twist	C
Her tresses twice or thrice about his wrist	C
Secured a point of vantage one how best	D
He 'd parry that by planting in her breast	D
His elbow spike each party too intent	E
For noticing howe'er the battle went	E
The conqueror would but have a corpse to kiss	F
May Boniface be duly damned for this	F
Howled some old Ghibellin as up he turned	G
From the wet heap of rubbish where they burned	G
His house a little skull with dazzling teeth	H
A boon sweet Christ let Salinguerra seethe	I
In hell for ever Christ and let myself	J
Be there to laugh at him moaned some young Guelf	J
Stumbling upon a shrivelled hand nailed fast	K
To the charred lintel of the doorway last	K
His father stood within to bid him speed	L
The thoroughfares were overrun with weed	L
Docks quitchgrass loathy mallows no man plants	M
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The stranger none of its inhabitants	N
Crept out of doors to taste fresh air again	O
And ask the purpose of a splendid train	P
Admitted on a morning every town	Q
Of the East League was come by envoy down	Q
To treat for Richard's ransom here you saw	R
The Vicentine here snowy oxen draw	R
The Paduan carroch its vermilion cross	S
On its white field A tiptoe o'er the fosse	T
Looked Legate Montelungo wistfully	U
After the flock of steeples he might spy	V
In Este's time gone doubts he long ago	W
To mend the ramparts sure the laggards know	W
The Pope's as good as here They paced the streets	X
More soberly At last Taurello greets	X
The League announced a pursuivant will match	Y
Its courtesy and labours to dispatch	Y
At earliest Tito Friedrich's Pretor sent	E
On pressing matters from his post at Trent	E
With Mainard Count of Tyrol simply waits	Z
Their going to receive the delegates	Z
Tito Our delegates exchanged a glance	A2
And keeping the main way admired askance	A2
The lazy engines of outlandish birth	B2
Couched like a king each on its bank of earth	B2
Arbalist manganel and catapult	C2
While stationed by as waiting a result	C2
Lean silent gangs of mercenaries ceased	D2
Working to watch the strangers This at least	D2
Were better spared he scarce presumes gainsay	E2
The League's decision Get our friend away	E2
And profit for the future how else teach	F2
Fools 't is not safe to stray within claw's reach	F2
Ere Salinguerra's final gasp be blown	G2
Those mere convulsive scratches find the bone	G2
Who bade him bloody the spent osprey's nare	R
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The carrochs halted in the public square	R
Pennons of every blazon once a flaunt	H2
Men prattled freelier than the crested gaunt	H2
White ostrich with a horse shoe in her beak	I2
Was missing and whoever chose might speak	I2
Ecelin boldly out so Ecelin	G2
Needed his wife to swallow half the sin	G2
And sickens by himself the devil's whelp	V
He styles his son dwindles away no help	V
From conserves your fine triple curded froth	J2
Of virgin's blood your Venice viper broth	J2
Eh Jubilate Peace no little word	K2
You utter here that 's not distinctly heard	K2
Up at Oliero he was absent sick	L2
When we besieged Bassano who i' the thick	L2
O' the work perceived the progress Azzo made	M2
Like Ecelin through his witch Adelaide	M2
She managed it so well that night by night	N2
At their bed foot stood up a soldier sprite	N2
First fresh pale by and by without a wound	O2
And when it came with eyes filmed as in swound	O2
They knew the place was taken Ominous	P2
That Ghibellins should get what cautelous	P2
Old Redbeard sought from Azzo's sire to wrench	Q2
Vainly Saint George contrived his town a trench	Q2
O' the marshes an impermeable bar	R
Young Ecelin is meant the tutelar	R
Of Padua rather veins embrace upon	G2
His hand like Brenta and Bacchiglion	G2
What now The founts God's bread touch not a plank	R2
A crawling hell of carrion every tank	R2
Choke full found out just now to Cino's cost	O2
The same who gave Taurello up for lost	O2
And making no account of fortune's freaks	P2
Refused to budge from Padua then but sneaks	P2
Back now with Concorezzi 'faith they drag	S2
Their carroch to San Vitale plant the flag	S2
On his own palace so adroitly razed	O2
He knew it not a sort of Guelf folk gazed	O2
And laughed apart Cino disliked their air	R
Must pluck up spirit show he does not care	R
Seats himself on the tank's edge will begin	G2
To hum za za Cavaler Ecelin	G2
A silence he gets warmer clinks to chime	T2
Now both feet plough the ground deeper each time	T2
At last za za and up with a fierce kick	L2
Comes his own mother's face caught by the thick	L2
Grey hair about his spur	R
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Which means they lift	O2
The covering Salinguerra made a shift	O2
To stretch upon the truth as well avoid	O2
Further disclosures leave them thus employed	O2
Our dropping Autumn morning clears apace	P2
And poor Ferrara puts a softened face	P2
On her misfortunes Let us scale this tall	U2
Huge foursquare line of red brick garden wall	U2
Bastioned within by trees of every sort	O2
On three sides slender spreading long and short	O2
Each grew as it contrived the poplar ramped	O2
The fig tree reared itself but stark and cramped	O2
Made fools of like tamed lions whence on the edge	V2
Running 'twixt trunk and trunk to smooth one ledge	V2
Of shade were shrubs inserted warp and woof	J
Which smothered up that variance Scale the roof	J
Of solid tops and o'er the slope you slide	O2
Down to a grassy space level and wide	O2
Here and there dotted with a tree but trees	P2
Of rarer leaf each foreigner at ease	P2
Set by itself and in the centre spreads	P2
Borne upon three uneasy leopards' heads	P2
A laver broad and shallow one bright spirt	O2
Of water bubbles in The walls begirt	O2
With trees leave off on either hand pursue	P2
Your path along a wondrous avenue	P2
Those walls abut on heaped of gleamy stone	G2
With aloes leering everywhere grey grown	G2
From many a Moorish summer how they wind	O2
Out of the fissures likelier to bind	O2
The building than those rusted cramps which drop	V
Already in the eating sunshine Stop	V
You fleeting shapes above there Ah the pride	O2
Or else despair of the whole country side	O2
A range of statues swarming o'er with wasps	P2
God goddess woman man the Greek rough rasps	P2
In crumbling Naples marble meant to look	W2
Like those Messina marbles Constance took	W2
Delight in or Taurello's self conveyed	O2
To Mantua for his mistress Adelaide	O2
A certain font with caryatides	P2
Since cloistered at Goito only these	P2
Are up and doing not abashed a troop	V
Able to right themselves who see you stoop	V
Their arms o' the instant after you Unplucked	O2
By this or that you pass for they conduct	O2
To terrace raised on terrace and between	G2
Creatures of brighter mould and braver mien	G2
Than any yet the choicest of the Isle	X2
No doubt Here left a sullen breathing while	X2
Up gathered on himself the Fighter stood	O2
For his last fight and wiping treacherous blood	O2
Out of the eyelids just held ope beneath	H
Those shading fingers in their iron sheath	H
Steadied his strengths amid the buzz and stir	R
Of the dusk hideous amphitheatre	R
At the announcement of his over match	Y
To wind the day's diversion up dispatch	Y
The pertinactious Gaul while limbs one heap	V
The Slave no breath in her round mouth watched leap	V
Dart after dart forth as her hero's car	R
Clove dizzily the solid of the war	R
Let coil about his knees for pride in him	Y2
We reach the farthest terrace and the grim	Y2
San Pietro Palace stops us	P2
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Such the state	O2
Of Salinguerra's plan to emulate	O2
Sicilian marvels that his girlish wife	J
Retrude still might lead her ancient life	J
In her new home whereat enlarged so much	Z2
Neighbours upon the novel princely touch	Z2
He took who here imprisons Boniface	P2
Here must the Envoys come to sue for grace	P2
And here emerging from the labyrinth	A3
Below Sordello paused beside the plinth	A3
Of the door pillar	R
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He had really left	O2
Verona for the cornfields a poor theft	O2
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From the morass where Este's camp was made	O2
The Envoys' march the Legate's cavalcade	O2
All had been seen by him but scarce as when	G2
Eager for cause to stand aloof from men	G2
At every point save the fantastic tie	O2
Acknowledged in his boyish sophistry	R
He made account of such A crowd he meant	O2
To task the whole of it each part's intent	O2
Concerned him therefore and the more he pried	O2
The less became Sordello satisfied	O2
With his own figure at the moment Sought	O2
He respite from his task Descried he aught	O2
Novel in the anticipated sight	O2
Of all these livers upon all delight	O2
This phalanx as of myriad points combined	O2
Whereby he still had imaged the mankind	O2
His youth was passed in dreams of rivalling	W2
His age in plans to prove at least such thing	W2
Had been so dreamed which now he must impress	P2
With his own will effect a happiness	P2
By theirs supply a body to his soul	B3
Thence and become eventually whole	B3
With them as he had hoped to be without	O2
Made these the mankind he once raved about	O2
Because a few of them were notable	C3
Should all be figured worthy note As well	D3
Expect to find Taurello's triple line	G2
Of trees a single and prodigious pine	G2
Real pines rose here and there but close among	W2
Thrust into and mixed up with pines a throng	W2
Of shrubs he saw a nameless common sort	O2
O'erpast in dreams left out of the report	O2
And hurried into corners or at best	O2
Admitted to be fancied like the rest	O2
Reckon that morning's proper chiefs how few	P2
And yet the people grew the people grew	P2
Grew ever as if the many there indeed	O2
More left behind and most who should succeed	O2
Simply in virtue of their mouths and eyes	P2
Petty enjoyments and huge miseries	P2
Mingled with and made veritably great	O2
Those chiefs he overlooked not Mainard's state	O2
Nor Concorezzi's station but instead	O2
Of stopping there each dwindled to be head	O2
Of infinite and absent Tyrolese	P2
Or Paduans startling all the more that these	P2
Seemed passive and disposed of uncared for	R
Yet doubtless on the whole like Eglamor	R
Smiling for if a wealthy man decays	P2
And out of store of robes must wear all days	P2
One tattered suit alike in sun and shade	O2
'T is commonly some tarnished gay brocade	O2
Fit for a feast night's flourish and no more	R
Nor otherwise poor Misery from her store	R
Of looks is fain upgather keep unfurled	O2
For common wear as she goes through the world	O2
The faint remainder of some worn out smile	X2
Meant for a feast night's service merely While	X2
Crowd upon crowd rose on Sordello thus	P2
Crowds no way interfering to discuss	P2
Much less dispute life's joys with one employed	O2
In envying them or if they aught enjoyed	O2
Where lingered something indefinable	C3
In every look and tone the mirth as well	D3
As woe that fixed at once his estimate	O2
Of the result their good or bad estate	O2
Old memories returned with new effect	O2
And the new body ere he could suspect	O2
Cohered mankind and he were really fused	O2
The new self seemed impatient to be used	O2
By him but utterly another way	E2
Than that anticipated strange to say	E2
They were too much below him more in thrall	U2
Than he the adjunct than the principal	C3
What booted scattered units here a mind	O2
And there which might repay his own to find	O2
And stamp and use a few howe'er august	O2
If all the rest were grovelling in the dust	O2
No first a mighty equilibrium sure	R
Should he establish privilege procure	R
For all the few had long possessed He felt	O2
An error an exceeding error melt	O2
While he was occupied with Mantuan chants	P2
Behoved him think of men and take their wants	P2
Such as he now distinguished every side	O2
As his own want which might be satisfied	O2
And after that think of rare qualities	P2
Of his own soul demanding exercise	P2
It followed naturally through no claim	E3
On their part which made virtue of the aim	E3
At serving them on his that past retrieve	J
He felt now in their toils theirs nor could leave	J
Wonder how in the eagerness to rule	F3
Impress his will on mankind he the fool	F3
Had never even entertained the thought	O2
That this his last arrangement might be fraught	O2
with incidental good to them as well	D3
And that mankind's delight would help to swell	D3
His own So if he sighed as formerly	U
Because the merry time of life must fleet	O2
'T was deeplier now for could the crowds repeat	O2
Their poor experiences His hand that shook	W2
Was twice to be deplored The Legate look	W2
With eyes like fresh blown thrush eggs on a thread	O2
Faint blue and loosely floating in his head	O2
Large tongue moist open mouth and this long while	X2
That owner of the idiotic smile	X2
Serves them	G3
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He fortunately saw in time	T2
His fault however and since the office prime	T2
Includes the secondary best accept	O2
Both offices Taurello its adept	O2
Could teach him the preparatory one	G2
And how to do what he had fancied done	G2
Long previously ere take the greater task	W2
How render first these people happy Ask	W2
The people's friends for there must be one good	O2
One way to it the Cause He understood	O2
The meaning now of Palma why the jar	R
Else the ado the trouble wide and far	R
Of Guelfs and Ghibellins the Lombard hope	V
And Rome's despair 'twixt Emperor and Pope	V
The confused shifting sort of Eden tale	H3
Hardihood still recurring still to fail	H3
That foreign interloping fiend this free	U
And native overbrooding deity	U
Yet a dire fascination o'er the palms	P2
The Kaiser ruined troubling even the calms	P2
Of paradise or on the other hand	O2
The Pontiff as the Kaisers understand	O2
One snake like cursed of God to love the ground	O2
Whose heavy length breaks in the noon profound	O2
Some saving tree which needs the Kaiser dressed	O2
As the dislodging angel of that pest	O2
Yet flames that pest bedropped flat head full fold	O2
With coruscating dower of dyes Behold	O2
The secret so to speak and master spring	W2
O' the contest which of the two Powers shall bring	W2
Men good perchance the most good ay it may	E2
Be that the question which best knows the way	E2
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And hereupon Count Mainard strutted past	O2
Out of San Pietro never seemed the last	O2
Of archers slingers and our friend began	G2
To recollect strange modes of serving man	G2
Arbalist catapult brake manganel	H3
And more This way of theirs may who can tell	H3
Need perfecting said he let all be solved	O2
At once Taurello 't is the task devolved	O2
On late confront Taurello	H3
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And at last	O2
He did confront him Scarce an hour had past	O2
When forth Sordello came older by years	P2
Than at his entry Unexampled fears	P2
Oppressed him and he staggered off blind mute	O2
And deaf like some fresh mutilated brute	O2
Into Ferrara not the empty town	G2
That morning witnessed he went up and down	G2
Streets whence the veil had been stript shred by shred	O2
So that in place of huddling with their dead	O2
Indoors to answer Salinguerra's ends	P2
Townsfolk make shift to crawl forth sit like friends	P2
With any one A woman gave him choice	P2
Of her two daughters the infantile voice	P2
Or the dimpled knee for half a chain his throat	O2
Was clasped with but an archer knew the coat	O2
Its blue cross and eight lilies bade beware	R
One dogging him in concert with the pair	R
Though thrumming on the sleeve that hid his knife	J
Night set in early autumn dews were rife	J
They kindled great fires while the Leaguers' mass	P2
Began at every carroch he must pass	P2
Between the kneeling people Presently	H3
The carroch of Verona caught his eye	O2
With purple trappings silently he bent	O2
Over its fire when voices violent	O2
Began Affirm not whom the youth was like	W2
That struck me from the porch I did not strike	W2
Again I too have chestnut hair my kin	G2
Hate Azzo and stand up for Ecelin	G2
Here minstrel drive bad thoughts away Sing Take	W2
My glove for guerdon And for that man's sake	W2
He turned A song of Eglamor's scarce named	O2
When Our Sordello's rather all exclaimed	O2
Is not Sordello famousest for rhyme	T2
He had been happy to deny this time	T2
Profess as heretofore the aching head	O2
And failing heart suspect that in his stead	O2
Some true Apollo had the charge of them	G3
Was champion to reward or to condemn	G3
So his intolerable risk might shift	O2
Or share itself but Naddo's precious gift	O2
Of gifts he owned be certain At the close	P2
I made that said he to a youth who rose	P2
As if to hear 't was Palma through the band	O2
Conducted him in silence by her hand	O2
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Back now for Salinguerra Tito of Trent	O2
Gave place to Palma and her friend who went	O2
In turn at Montelungo's visit one	G2
After the other were they come and gone	G2
These spokesmen for the Kaiser and the Pope	V
This incarnation of the People's hope	V
Sordello all the say of each was said	O2
And Salinguerra sat himself instead	O2
Of these to talk with lingered musing yet	O2
'T was a drear vast presence chamber roughly set	O2
In order for the morning's use full face	P2
The Kaiser's ominous sign mark had first place	P2
The crowned grim twy necked eagle coarsely blacked	O2
With ochre on the naked wall nor lacked	O2
Romano's green and yellow either side	O2
But the new token Tito brought had tried	O2
The Legate's patience nay if Palma knew	G2
What Salinguerra almost meant to do	G2
Until the sight of her restored his lip	V
A certain half smile three months' chieftainship	V
Had banished Afterward the Legate found	O2
No change in him nor asked what badge he wound	O2
And unwound carelessly Now sat the Chief	J
Silent as when our couple left whose brief	J
Encounter wrought so opportune effect	O2
In thoughts he summoned not nor would reject	O2
Though time 't was now if ever to pause fix	P2
On any sort of ending wiles and tricks	P2
Exhausted judge his charge the crazy town	G2
Just managed to be hindered crashing down	G2
His last sound troops ranged care observed to post	O2
His best of the maimed soldiers innermost	O2
So much was plain enough but somehow struck	W2
Him not before And now with this strange luck	W2
Of Tito's news rewarding his address	P2
So well what thought he of how the success	P2
With Friedrich's rescript there would either hush	I3
Old Ecelin's scruples bring the manly flush	I3
To his young son's white cheek or last exempt	O2
Himself from telling what there was to tempt	O2
No that this minstrel was Romano's last	O2
Servant himself the first Could he contrast	O2
The whole that minstrel's thirty years just spent	O2
In doing nought their notablest event	O2
This morning's journey hither as I told	O2
Who yet was lean outworn and really old	O2
A stammering awkward man that scarce dared raise	P2
His eye before the magisterial gaze	P2
And Salinguerra with his fears and hopes	P2
Of sixty years his Emperors and Popes	P2
Cares and contrivances yet you would say	E2
'T was a youth nonchalantly looked away	E2
Through the embrasure northward o'er the sick	W2
Expostulating trees so agile quick	W2
And graceful turned the head on the broad chest	O2
Encased in pliant steel his constant vest	O2
Whence split the sun off in a spray of fire	R
Across the room and loosened of its tire	R
Of steel that head let breathe the comely brown	G2
Large massive locks discoloured as if a crown	G2
Encircled them so frayed the basnet where	R
A sharp white line divided clean the hair	R
Glossy above glossy below it swept	O2
Curling and fine about a brow thus kept	O2
Calm laid coat upon coat marble and sound	O2
This was the mystic mark the Tuscan found	O2
Mused of turned over books about Square faced	O2
No lion more two vivid eyes enchased	O2
In hollows filled with many a shade and streak	W2
Settling from the bold nose and bearded cheek	W2
Nor might the half smile reach them that deformed	O2
A lip supremely perfect else unwarmed	O2
Unwidened less or more indifferent	O2
Whether on trees or men his thoughts were bent	O2
Thoughts rarely after all in trim and train	G2
As now a period was fulfilled again	G2
Of such a series made his life compressed	O2
In each one story serving for the rest	O2
How his life streams rolling arrived at last	O2
At the barrier whence were it once overpast	O2
They would emerge a river to the end	O2
Gathered themselves up paused bade fate befriend	O2
Took the leap hung a minute at the height	O2
Then fell back to oblivion infinite	O2
Therefore he smiled Beyond stretched garden grounds	P2
Where late the adversary breaking bounds	P2
Had gained him an occasion That above	J
That eagle testified he could improve	J
Effectually The Kaiser's symbol lay	E2
Beside his rescript a new badge by way	E2
Of baldric while another thing that marred	O2
Alike emprise achievement and reward	O2
Ecelin's missive was conspicuous too	O2
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What past life did those flying thoughts pursue	O2
As his few names in Mantua half so old	O2
But at Ferrara where his sires enrolled	O2
It latterly the Adelardi spared	O2
No pains to rival them both factions shared	O2
Ferrara so that counted out 't would yield	O2
A product very like the city's shield	O2
Half black and white or Ghibellin and Guelf	J
As after Salinguerra styled himself	J
And Este who till Marchesalla died	O2
Last of the Adelardi never tried	O2
His fortune there with Marchesalla's child	O2
Would pass could Blacks and Whites be reconciled	O2
And young Taurello wed Linguetta wealth	J3
And sway to a sole grasp Each treats by stealth	J3
Already when the Guelfs the Ravennese	O2
Arrive assault the Pietro quarter seize	O2
Linguetta and are gone Men's first dismay	E2
Abated somewhat hurries down to lay	E2
The after indignation Boniface	O2
This Richard's father Learn the full disgrace	O2
Averted ere you blame us Guelfs who rate	O2
Your Salinguerra your sole potentate	O2
That might have been 'mongst Este's valvassors	O2
Ay Azzo's who not privy to abhors	O2
Our step but we were zealous Azzo then	G2
To do with Straight a meeting of old men	G2
Old Salinguerra dead his heir a boy	K3
What if we change our ruler and decoy	K3
The Lombard Eagle of the azure sphere	R
With Italy to build in fix him here	R
Settle the city's troubles in a trice	O2
For private wrong let public good suffice	O2
In fine young Salinguerra's staunchest friends	O2
Talked of the townsmen making him amends	O2
Gave him a goshawk and affirmed there was	O2
Rare sport one morning over the green grass	O2
A mile or so He sauntered through the plain	G2
Was restless fell to thinking turned again	G2
In time for Azzo's entry with the bride	O2
Count Boniface rode smirking at their side	O2
She brings him half Ferrara whispers flew	O2
And all Ancona If the stripling knew	O2
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Anon the stripling was in Sicily	H3
Where Heinrich ruled in right of Constance he	H3
Was gracious nor his guest incapable	H3
Each understood the other So it fell	H3
One Spring when Azzo thoroughly at ease	O2
Had near forgotten by what precise degrees	O2
He crept at first to such a downy seat	O2
The Count trudged over in a special heat	O2
To bid him of God's love dislodge from each	F2
Of Salinguerra's palaces a breach	F2
Might yawn else not so readily to shut	O2
For who was just arrived at Mantua but	O2
The youngster sword on thigh and tuft on chin	G2
With tokens for Celano Ecelin	G2
Pistore and the like Next news no whit	O2
Do any of Ferrara's domes befit	O2
His wife of Heinrich's very blood a band	O2
Of foreigners assemble understand	O2
Garden constructing level and surround	O2
Build up and bury in A last news crowned	O2
The consternation since his infant's birth	B2
He only waits they end his wondrous girth	B2
Of trees that link San Pietro with Tom	L3
To visit Mantua When the Podest	O2
Ecelin at Vicenza called his friend	O2
Taurello thither what could be their end	O2
But to restore the Ghibellins' late Head	O2
The Kaiser helping He with most to dread	O2
From vengeance and reprisal Azzo there	R
With Boniface beforehand as aware	R
Of plots in progress gave alarm expelled	O2
Both plotters but the Guelfs in triumph yelled	O2
Too hastily The burning and the flight	O2
And how Taurello occupied that night	O2
With Ecelin lost wife and son I told	O2
Not how he bore the blow retained his hold	O2
Got friends safe through left enemies the worst	O2
O' the fray and hardly seemed to care at first	O2
But afterward men heard not constantly	H3
Of Salinguerra's House so sure to be	H3
Though Azzo simply gained by the event	O2
A shifting of his plagues the first content	O2
To fall behind the second and estrange	M3
So far his nature suffer such a change	M3
That in Romano sought he wife and child	O2
And for Romano's sake seemed reconciled	O2
To losing individual life which shrunk	W2
As the other prospered mortised in his trunk	W2
Like a dwarf palm which wanton Arabs foil	H3
Of bearing its own proper wine and oil	H3
By grafting into it the stranger vine	G2
Which sucks its heart out sly and serpentine	G2
Till forth one vine palm feathers to the root	O2
And red drops moisten the insipid fruit	O2
Once Adelaide set on the subtle mate	O2
Of the weak soldier urged to emulate	O2
The Church's valiant women deed for deed	O2
And paragon her namesake win the meed	O2
O' the great Matilda soon they overbore	R
The rest of Lombardy not as before	R
By an instinctive truculence but patched	O2
The Kaiser's strategy until it matched	O2
The Pontiff's sought old ends by novel means	O2
Only why is it Salinguerra screens	O2
Himself behind Romano him we bade	O2
Enjoy our shine i' the front not seek the shade	O2
Asked Heinrich somewhat of the tardiest	O2
To comprehend Nor Philip acquiesced	O2
At once in the arrangement reasoned plied	O2
His friend with offers of another bride	O2
A statelier function fruitlessly 't was plain	G2
Taurello through some weakness must remain	G2
Obscure And Otho free to judge of both	N3
Ecelin the unready harsh and loth	O3
And this more plausible and facile wight	O2
With every point a sparkle chose the right	O2
Admiring how his predecessors harped	O2
On the wrong man thus quoth he wits are warped	O2
By outsides Carelessly meanwhile his life	J
Suffered its many turns of peace and strife	J
In many lands you hardly could surprise	O2
The man who shamed Sordello recognize	O2
In this as much beside that unconcerned	O2
What qualities were natural or earned	O2
With no ideal of graces as they came	E3
He took them singularly well the same	E3
Speaking the Greek's own language just because	O2
Your Greek eludes you leave the least of flaws	O2
In contracts with him while since Arab lore	R
Holds the stars' secret take one trouble more	R
And master it 'T is done and now deter	R
Who may the Tuscan once Jove trined for her	R
From Friedrich's path Friedrich whose pilgrimage	P3
The same man puts aside whom he 'll engage	Q3
To leave next year John Brienne in the lurch	R3
Come to Bassano see Saint Francis' church	R3
And judge of Guido the Bolognian's piece	O2
Which lend Taurello credit rivals Greece	O2
Angels with aureoles like golden quoits	O2
Pitched home applauding Ecelin's exploits	O2
For elegance he strung the angelot	O2
Made rhymes thereto for prowess clove he not	O2
Tiso last siege from crest to crupper Why	O2
Detail you thus a varied mastery	R
But to show how Taurello on the watch	S3
For men to read their hearts and thereby catch	Y
Their capabilities and purposes	O2
Displayed himself so far as displayed these	O2
While our Sordello only cared to know	G2
About men as a means whereby he 'd show	G2
Himself and men had much or little worth	B2
According as they kept in or drew forth	T3
That self the other's choicest instruments	O2
Surmised him shallow	G2
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Meantime malcontents	O2
Dropped off town after town grew wiser How	U3
Change the world's face asked people as 't is now	U3
It has been will be ever very fine	G2
Subjecting things profane to things divine	G2
In talk This contumacy will fatigue	W2
The vigilance of Este and the League	W2
The Ghibellins gain on us as it happed	O2
Old Azzo and old Boniface entrapped	O2
By Ponte Alto both in one month's space	O2
Slept at Verona either left a brace	O2
Of sons but three years after either's pair	R
Lost Guglielm and Aldobrand its heir	R
Azzo remained and Richard all the stay	O2
Of Este and Saint Boniface at bay	O2
As 't were Then either Ecelin grew old	O2
Or his brain altered not o' the proper mould	O2
For new appliances his old palm stock	W2
Endured no influx of strange strengths He 'd rock	W2
As in a drunkenness or chuckle low	G2
As proud of the completeness of his woe	G2
Then weep real tears now make some mad onslaught	O2
On Este heedless of the lesson taught	O2
So painfully now cringe for peace sue peace	O2
At price of past gain bar of fresh increase	O2
To the fortunes of Romano Up at last	O2
Rose Este down Romano sank as fast	O2
And men remarked these freaks of peace and war	R
Happened while Salinguerra was afar	R
Whence every friend besought him all in vain	G2
To use his old adherent's wits again	G2
Not he who had advisers in his sons	O2
Could plot himself nor needed any one's	O2
Advice 'T was Adelaide's remaining staunch	V3
Prevented his destruction root and branch	W3
Forthwith but when she died doom fell for gay	O2
He made alliances gave lands away	O2
To whom it pleased accept them and withdrew	R
For ever from the world Taurello who	R
Was summoned to the convent then refused	O2
A word at the wicket patience thus abused	O2
Promptly threw off alike his imbecile	H3
Ally's yoke and his own frank foolish smile	H3
Soon a few movements of the happier sort	O2
Changed matters put himself in men's report	O2
As heretofore he had to fight beside	O2
And that became him ever So in pride	O2
And flushing of this kind of second youth	X3
He dealt a good will blow Este in truth	X3
Lay prone and men remembered somewhat late	O2
A laughing old outrageous stifled hate	O2
He bore to Este how it would outbreak	W2
At times spite of disguise like an earthquake	W2
In sunny weather as that noted day	O2
When with his hundred friends he tried to slay	O2
Azzo before the Kaiser's face and how	U3
On Azzo's calm refusal to allow	U3
A liegeman's challenge straight he too was calmed	O2
As if his hate could bear to lie embalmed	O2
Bricked up the moody Pharaoh and survive	J
All intermediate crumblings to arrive	J
At earth's catastrophe 't was Este's crash	Y3
Not Azzo's he demanded so no rash	Y3
Procedure Este's true antagonist	O2
Rose out of Ecelin all voices whist	O2
All eyes were sharpened wits predicted He	R
'T was leaned in the embrasure absently	U3
Amused with his own efforts now to trace	O2
With his steel sheathed forefinger Friedrich's face	O2
I' the dust but as the trees waved sere his smile	U3
Deepened and words expressed its thought erewhile	U3
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Ay fairly housed at last my old compeer	R
That we should stick together all the year	R
I kept Vicenza How old Boniface	O2
Old Azzo caught us in its market place	O2
He by that pillar I at this caught each	F2
In mid swing more than fury of his speech	F2
Egging the rabble on to disavow	U3
Allegiance to their Marquis Bacchus how	U3
They boasted Ecelin must turn their drudge	P3
Nor if released will Salinguerra grudge	P3
Paying arrears of tribute due long since	O2
Bacchus My man could promise then nor wince	O2
The bones and muscles Sound of wind and limb	Y2
Spoke he the set excuse I framed for him	Y2
And now he sits me slavering and mute	O2
Intent on chafing each starved purple foot	O2
Benumbed past aching with the altar slab	Z3
Will no vein throb there when some monk shall blab	Z3
Spitefully to the circle of bald scalps	O2
'Friedrich 's affirmed to be our side the Alps'	O2
Eh brother Lactance brother Anaclet	O2
Sworn to abjure the world its fume and fret	O2
God's own now Drop the dormitory bar	R
Enfold the scanty grey serge scapular	R
Twice o'er the cowl to muffle memories out	O2
So But the midnight whisper turns a shout	O2
Eyes wink mouths open pulses circulate	O2
In the stone walls the past the world you hate	O2
Is with you ambush open field or see	O2
The surging flame we fire Vicenza glee	O2
Follow let Pilio and Bernardo chafe	J
Bring up the Mantuans through San Biagio safe	J
Ah the mad people waken Ah they writhe	A4
And reach us If they block the gate No tithe	B4
Can pass keep back you Bassanese The edge	V2
Use the edge shear thrust hew melt down the wedge	V2
Let out the black of those black upturned eyes	O2
Hell are they sprinkling fire too The blood fries	O2
And hisses on your brass gloves as they tear	R
Those upturned faces choking with despair	R
Brave Slidder through the reeking gate How now	U3
'You six had charge of her ' And then the vow	U3
Comes and the foam spirts hair's plucked till one shriek	W2
I hear it and you fling you cannot speak	W2
Your gold flowered basnet to a man who haled	O2
The Adelaide he dared scarce view unveiled	O2
This morn naked across the fire how crown	G2
The archer that exhausted lays you down	G2
Your infant smiling at the flame and dies	O2
While one while mine	G2
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Bacchus I think there lies	O2
More than one corpse there and he paced the room	C4
Another cinder somewhere 't was my doom	C4
Beside my doom If Adelaide is dead	O2
I live the same this Azzo lives instead	O2
Of that to me and we pull any how	U3
Este into a heap the matter 's now	U3
At the true juncture slipping us so oft	O2
Ay Heinrich died and Otho please you doffed	O2
His crown at such a juncture Still if hold	O2
Our Friedrich's purpose if this chain enfold	O2
The neck of who but this same Ecelin	U3
That must recoil when the best days begin	U3
Recoil that 's nought if the recoiler leaves	O2
His name for me to fight with no one grieves	O2
But he must interfere forsooth unlock	W2
His cloister to become my stumbling block	W2
Just as of old Ay ay there 't is again	U3
The land's inevitable Head explain	U3
The reverences that subject us Count	O2
These Ecelins now Not to say as fount	O2
Originating power of thought from twelve	J
That drop i' the trenches they joined hands to delve	J
Six shall surpass him but why men must twine	U3
Somehow with something Ecelin 's a fine	U3
Clear name 'Twere simpler doubtless twine with me	O2
At once our cloistered friend's capacity	O2
Was of a sort I had to share myself	J
In fifty portions like an o'ertasked elf	J
That 's forced illume in fifty points the vast	O2
Rare vapour he 's environed by At last	O2
My strengths though sorely frittered e'en converge	D4
And crown no Bacchus they have yet to urge	D4
The man be crowned	O2
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That aloe an he durst	O2
Would climb Just such a bloated sprawler first	O2
I noted in Messina's castle court	O2
The day I came when Heinrich asked in sport	O2
If I would pledge my faith to win him back	W2
His right in Lombardy 'for once bid pack	W2
Marauders ' he continued in my stead	O2
'You rule Taurello ' and upon this head	O2
Laid the silk glove of Constance I see her	R
Too mantled head to foot in miniver	R
Retrude following	W2
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I am absolved	O2
From further toil the empery devolved	O2
On me 't was Tito's word I have to lay	U3
For once my plan pursue my plan my way	U3
Prompt nobody and render an account	O2
Taurello to Taurello Nay I mount	O2
To Friedrich he conceives the post I kept	O2
Who did true service able or inept	O2
Who 's worthy guerdon Ecelin or I	O2
Me guerdoned counsel follows would he vie	O2
With the Pope really Azzo Boniface	O2
Compose a right arm Hohenstauffen's race	O2
Must break ere govern Lombardy I point	O2
How easy 't were to twist once out of joint	O2
The socket from the bone my Azzo's stare	R
Meanwhile for I this idle strap to wear	R
Shall fret myself abundantly what end	O2
To serve There 's left me twenty years to spend	O2
How better than my old way Had I one	U3
Who laboured overthrow my work a son	U3
Hatching with Azzo superb treachery	R
To root my pines up and then poison me	R
Suppose 't were worth while frustrate that Beside	O2
Another life's ordained me the world's tide	O2
Rolls and what hope of parting from the press	O2
Of waves a single wave though weariness	O2
Gently lifted aside laid upon shore	R
My life must be lived out in foam and roar	R
No question Fifty years the province held	O2
Taurello troubles raised and troubles quelled	O2
He in the midst who leaves this quaint stone place	O2
These trees a year or two then not a trace	O2
Of him How obtain hold fetter men's tongues	O2
Like this poor minstrel with the foolish songs	O2
To which despite our bustle he is linked	O2
Flowers one may teaze that never grow extinct	O2
Ay that patch surely green as ever where	R
I set Her Moorish lentisk by the stair	R
To overawe the aloes and we trod	O2
Those flowers how call you such into the sod	O2
A stately foreigner a world of pain	U3
To make it thrive arrest rough winds all vain	U3
It would decline these would not be destroyed	O2
And now where is it where can you avoid	O2
The flowers I frighten children twenty years	O2
Longer which way too Ecelin appears	O2
To thwart me for his son's besotted youth	X3
Gives promise of the proper tiger tooth	X3
They feel it at Vicenza Fate fate fate	O2
My fine Taurello Go you promulgate	O2
Friedrich's decree and here 's shall aggrandise	O2
Young Ecelin your Prefect's badge a prize	O2
Too precious certainly	R
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How now Compete	O2
With my old comrade shuffle from their seat	O2
His children Paltry dealing Do n't I know	U3
Ecelin now I think and years ago	U3
What 's changed the weakness did not I compound	O2
For that and undertake to keep him sound	O2
Despite it Here 's Taurello hankering	W2
After a boy's preferment this plaything	W2
To carry Bacchus And he laughed	O2
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Remark	W2
Why schemes wherein cold blooded men embark	W2
Prosper when your enthusiastic sort	O2
Fail while these last are ever stopping short	O2
So much they should so little they can do	O2
The careless tribe see nothing to pursue	O2
If they desist meantime their scheme succeeds	O2
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Thoughts were caprices in the course of deeds	O2
Methodic with Taurello so he turned	O2
Enough amused by fancies fairly earned	O2
Of Este's horror struck submitted neck	W2
And Richard the cowed braggart at his beck	W2
To his own petty but immediate doubt	O2
If he could pacify the League without	O2
Conceding Richard just to this was brought	O2
That interval of vain discursive thought	O2
As shall I say some Ethiop past pursuit	O2
Of all enslavers dips a shackled foot	O2
Burnt to the blood into the drowsy black	W2
Enormous watercourse which guides him back	W2
To his own tribe again where he is king	W2
And laughs because he guesses numbering	W2
The yellower poison wattles on the pouch	E4
Of the first lizard wrested from its couch	E4
Under the slime whose skin the while he strips	O2
To cure his nostril with and festered lips	O2
And eyeballs bloodshot through the desert blast	O2
That he has reached its boundary at last	O2
May breathe thinks o'er enchantments of the South	F4
Sovereign to plague his enemies their mouth	F4
Eyes nails and hair but these enchantments tried	O2
In fancy puts them soberly aside	O2
For truth projects a cool return with friends	O2
The likelihood of winning mere amends	O2
Ere long thinks that takes comfort silently	R
Then from the river's brink his wrongs and he	R
Hugging revenge close to their hearts are soon	U3
Off striding for the Mountains of the Moon	U3
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Midnight the watcher nodded on his spear	R
Since clouds dispersing left a passage clear	R
For any meagre and discoloured moon	U3
To venture forth and such was peering soon	U3
Above the harassed city her close lanes	O2
Closer not half so tapering her fanes	O2
As though she shrunk into herself to keep	V
What little life was saved more safely Heap	V
By heap the watch fires mouldered and beside	O2
The blackest spoke Sordello and replied	O2
Palma with none to listen 'T is your cause	O2
What makes a Ghibellin There should be laws	O2
Remember how my youth escaped I trust	O2
To you for manhood Palma tell me just	O2
As any child there must be laws at work	W2
Explaining this Assure me good may lurk	W2
Under the bad my multitude has part	O2
In your designs their welfare is at heart	O2
With Salinguerra to their interest	O2
Refer the deeds he dwelt on so divest	O2
Our conference of much that scared me Why	O2
Affect that heartless tone to Tito I	O2
Esteemed myself yes in my inmost mind	O2
This morn a recreant to my race mankind	O2
O'erlooked till now why boast my spirit's force	O2
Such force denied its object why divorce	O2
These then admire my spirit's flight the same	E3
As though it bore up helped some half orbed flame	E3
Else quenched in the dead void to living space	O2
That orb cast off to chaos and disgrace	O2
Why vaunt so much my unencumbered dance	O2
Making a feat's facilities enhance	O2
Its marvel But I front Taurello one	U3
Of happier fate and all I should have done	U3
He does the people's good being paramount	O2
With him their progress may perhaps account	O2
For his abiding still whereas you heard	O2
The talk with Tito the excuse preferred	O2
For burning those five hostages and broached	O2
By way of blind as you and I approached	O2
I do believe	J
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She spoke then he My thought	O2
Plainlier expressed All to your profit nought	O2
Meantime of these of conquests to achieve	J
For them of wretchedness he might relieve	J
While profiting your party Azzo too	O2
Supports a cause what cause Do Guelfs pursue	O2
Their ends by means like yours or better	R
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When	U3
The Guelfs were proved alike men weighed with men	U3
And deed with deed blaze blood with blood and blaze	O2
Morn broke Once more Sordello meet its gaze	O2
Proudly the people's charge against thee fails	O2
In every point while either party quails	O2
These are the busy ones be silent thou	U3
Two parties take the world up and allow	U3
No third yet have one principle subsist	O2
By the same injustice whoso shall enlist	O2
With either ranks with man's inveterate foes	O2
So there is one less quarrel to compose	O2
The Guelf the Ghibellin may be to curse	O2
I have done nothing but both sides do worse	O2
Than nothing Nay to me forgotten reft	O2
Of insight lapped by trees and flowers was left	O2
The notion of a service ha What lured	O2
Me here what mighty aim was I assured	O2
Must move Taurello What if there remained	O2
A cause intact distinct from these ordained	O2
For me its true discoverer	R
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Some one pressed	O2
Before them here a watcher to suggest	O2
The subject for a ballad They must know	U3
The tale of the dead worthy long ago	U3
Consul of Rome that 's long ago for us	O2
Minstrels and bowmen idly squabbling thus	O2
In the world's corner but too late no doubt	O2
For the brave time he sought to bring about	O2
Not know Crescentius Nomentanus Then	U3
He cast about for terms to tell him when	U3
Sordello disavowed it how they used	O2
Whenever their Superior introduced	O2
A novice to the Brotherhood for I	O2
Was just a brown sleeve brother merrily	R
Appointed too quoth he till Innocent	O2
Bade me relinquish to my small content	O2
My wife or my brown sleeves some brother spoke	W2
Ere nocturns of Crescentius to revoke	W2
The edict issued after his demise	O2
Which blotted fame alike and effigies	O2
All out except a floating power a name	E3
Including tending to produce the same	E3
Great act Rome dead forgotten lived at least	O2
Within that brain though to a vulgar priest	O2
And a vile stranger two not worth a slave	J
Of Rome's Pope John King Otho fortune gave	J
The rule there so Crescentius haply dressed	O2
In white called Roman Consul for a jest	O2
Taking the people at their word forth stepped	O2
As upon Brutus' heel nor ever kept	O2
Rome waiting stood erect and from his brain	U3
Gave Rome out on its ancient place again	U3
Ay bade proceed with Brutus' Rome Kings styled	O2
Themselves mere citizens of and beguiled	O2
Into great thoughts thereby would choose the gem	G3
Out of a lapfull spoil their diadem	G3
The Senate's cypher was so hard to scratch	Y
He flashes like a phanal all men catch	Y
The flame Rome 's just accomplished when returned	O2
Otho with John the Consul's step had spurned	O2
And Hugo Lord of Este to redress	O2
The wrongs of each Crescentius in the stress	O2
Of adverse fortune bent They crucified	O2
Their Consul in the Forum and abide	O2
E'er since such slaves at Rome that I for I	O2
Was once a brown sleeve brother merrily	R
Appointed I had option to keep wife	J
Or keep brown sleeves and managed in the strife	J
Lose both A song of Rome	G4
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And Rome indeed	O2
Robed at Goito in fantastic weed	O2
The Mother City of his Mantuan days	O2
Looked an established point of light whence rays	O2
Traversed the world for all the clustered homes	O2
Beside of men seemed bent on being Romes	O2
In their degree the question was how each	F2
Should most resemble Rome clean out of reach	F2
Nor of the Two did either principle	U3
Struggle to change but to possess Rome still	U3
Guelf Rome or Ghibellin Rome	G4
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Let Rome advance	O2
Rome as she struck Sordello's ignorance	O2
How could he doubt one moment Rome 's the Cause	O2
Rome of the Pandects all the world's new laws	O2
Of the Capitol of Castle Angelo	U3
New structures that inordinately glow	U3
Subdued brought back to harmony made ripe	V
By many a relic of the archetype	V
Extant for wonder every upstart church	R3
That hoped to leave old temples in the lurch	R3
Corrected by the Theatre forlorn	U3
That as a mundane shell its world late born	U3
Lay and o'ershadowed it These hints combined	O2
Rome typifies the scheme to put mankind	O2
Once more in full possession of their rights	O2
Let us have Rome again On me it lights	O2
To build up Rome on me the first and last	O2
For such a future was endured the past	O2
And thus in the grey twilight forth he sprung	W2
To give his thought consistency among	W2
The very People let their facts avail	U3
Finish the dream grown from the archer's tale	U3

Robert Browning

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