How one gets rich! Let each one bear his lot. And I have laboured somewhat in my time And not been paid profusely. Some good son Paint my two hundred pictures - let him try! Meted on each side by the angel's reed, For Leonard, Rafael, Angelo and me To cover -the three first without a wife, still they overcome Because there's still Lucrezia, as I choose. Again the Cousin's whistle! Go, my Love. BEFORE. 1. LET them fight it out, friend! things have gone too fa 2. Why, you would not bid men, sunk in such a slough, Strike no arm out further, stick and stink as now, Leaving right and wrong to settle the embroilment, Heaven with snaky Hell, in torture and entoilment? 3. Which of them 's the culprit, how must he conceive God's the queen he caps to, laughing in his sleeve ! "Tis but decent to profess one's self beneath her. Still, one must not be too much in earnest either. 4. Better sin the whole sin, sure that God observes, Then go live his life out! life will try his nerves, When the sky which noticed all, makes no disclosur And the earth keeps up her terrible composure. 5. Let him pace at pleasure, past the walls of rose, 6. What's the leopard-dog-thing, constant to his side, 7. So much for the culprit. Who's the martyred man? 8. All or nothing, stake it! trusts he God or no? 9. While God's champion Ah, "forgive" you bid him? lives, Wrong shall be resisted: dead, why he forgives. But you must not end my friend ere you begin him; Evil stands not crowned on earth, while breath is in nim 10. Will the wronger, at this last of all, Dare to say "I did wrong," rising in his fall? No? Let go, then both the fighters to their places While I count three, step you back as many paces. AFTER TAKE the cloak from his face, and at first How he lies in his rights of a man! And absorbed in the new life he leads, He recks not, he heeds Nor his wrong nor my vengeance both strike On his senses alike, And are lost in the solemn and strange Surprise of the change. Ha, what avails death to erase His offence, my disgrace? I would we were boys as of old In the field, by the fold His outrage, God's patience, man's scorn I stand here now, he lies in his place → Cover the face. |