Classic Poem

" Tutti ga i so gusti e mi go i mii."

( Venetian saying )

Sighed Rawdon Brown: " Yes, I'm departing, Toni!
I needs must, just this once before I die,
Revisit England: Anglus Brown am I,
Although my heart's Venetian. Yes, old crony —
Venice and London — London's Death the Bony
Compared with Life — that's Venice! What a sky,
A sea, this morning! One last look! Good-bye,
Ca Pesaro! No lion — I'm a coney
To weep! I'm dazzled; 'tis that sun I view
Rippling the . . . the . . . Cospetto, Toni! Down
With carpet-bag and off with valise-straps!
Bella Venezia, non ti lascio pi u !"
Nor did Brown ever leave her; well, perhaps
Browning, next week, may find himself quite Brown!