Rawdon Brown

"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-by,
Cà 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 più!"
Nor did Brown ever leave her: well, perhaps
Browning, next week, may find himself quite Brown!