Keeping his word, the promised Roman kept br Enough of worded breath to live till now. br Our Regulus was free of plighted vow br Or tacit debt: skies fell, seas leapt, storms swept; br Death yawned: with a mere step he might have stept br To life. But the House-master would know how br To do the master's honours; and did know, br And did them to the hour of rest, and slept br The last of all his house.