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-by, Ca Pesaro! No, lion -- I'm a coney To weep! I'm dazzled; 't is that sun I view Rippling the ... the ... Cospetto, Toni! Down With carpet-bag, and off with valise-straps! Bella Venezia, non ti lascio piu!" Nor did Brown ever leave her: well, perhaps Browning, next week, may find himself quite Brown! |