Better by far a warrant of imprisonment than honeyed words from those who have wantonly wounded the religious sentiment of my seventy million brothers.

In such a room one should have been waited on by boys crowned with roses, and have partaken only of classic dishesof Venafran olives or oysters from the Lucrine lake, washed down with Massic, or Chian, or honeyed Falernian.

The morn will the chains of sleep unbind, And spread their plumes to the freshening wind; And music from many a warbler's mouth Will honey the grove, like the breath of the south; But when shall the lips, whose lightest word Was sweeter far than the warbling bird, Their rich wild strain of melody pour?