He turns to account in his poem, the pomp and clamour of the host taking the field (_Inf._ 22); the devices of heraldry; the answering chimes of morning bells over the city;[143] the inventions and appliances of art, the wheels within wheels of clocks (_Par._ 24), the many-coloured carpets of the East (_Inf._ 17); music and dancing--the organ and voice in church: --Voce mista al dolce suono Che or sì or no s'intendon le parole,--_Purg._ 9. the lute and voice in the chamber (_Par._ 20); the dancers preparing to begin,[144] or waiting to catch a new strain.[145] Or, again, the images of domestic life, the mother's ways to her child, reserved and reproving--"che al figlio par superba"--or cheering him with her voice, or watching him compassionately in the wandering of fever: Ond'ella, appresso d'un pio sospiro Gli occhi drizzò ver me, con quel sembiante Che madre fa sopra figliuol deliro.--_Parad._ 1. [Footnote 143: Indi come orologio che ne chiami Nell'ora che la sposa di Dio surge A mattinar lo sposo perchè l'ami, Che l'una parte e l'altra tira ed urge Tin tin sonando con sì dolce nota Che 'l ben disposto spirto d'amor turge; Così vid'io la gloriosa ruota Muoversi e render voce a voce, in tempra Ed in dolcezza ch'esser non può nota Se non colà dove 'l gioir s'insempra.--_Parad._ 10.] [Footnote 144: E come surge, e va, ed entra in ballo Vergine lieta, sol per farne onore Alla novizia, e non per alcun fallo.--_Ibid._ 25.] [Footnote 145: Donne mi parver, non da ballo sciolte, Ma che s'arrestin tacite ascoltando Fin che le nuove note hanno ricolte.--_Ibid._ 10.] Nor is he less observant of the more delicate phenomena of mind, in its inward workings, and its connexion with the body. The play of features, the involuntary gestures and attitudes of the passions, the power of eye over eye, of hand upon hand, the charm of voice and expression, of musical sounds even when not understood--feelings, sensations, and states of mind which have a name, and others, equally numerous and equally common, which have none--these, often so fugitive, so shifting, so baffling and intangible, are expressed with a directness, a simplicity, a sense of truth at once broad and refined, which seized at once on the congenial mind of his countrymen, and pointed out to them the road which they have followed in art, unapproached as yet by any competitors.[146] [Footnote 146: For instance:--_thoughts upon thoughts, ending in sleep and dreams_: Nuovo pensier dentro de me si mise, Dal qual più altri nacquero e diversi: _E tanto d'uno in altro vaneggiai Che gli occhi per vaghezza ricopersi, E 'l pensamento in sogno trasmutai_.--_Purg._ 18. _sleep stealing off when broken by light_: