IN THE ALBUM AT POSSAGNO, ON REVISITING POSSAGNO AFTER AN ABSENCE OF TWO YEARS, AUGUST 1856. Two years older, two years wiser, Ánd, by every visit páid here, Made, at least, two whole years happier. Absent from thee, at one time, be Móre than two years, loved Possagno! TO SIGNORA ELISA PAROLINI, ON OUR LEAVING BASSANO. FROM our northern home, rejoicing, To the walls of old Bassano. Tó our northern home returning, Why so sad and slow our steps now? Ah! behind us left the vision, And the walls of old Bassano. BASSANO, September 15, 1856. POET AND ALBUM. POET. ANOTHER album! well, I sometimes think: ALBUM. Not yet a poet! well, I sometimes think: How luckless albums! not one in a thousand, Once, in his whole life, fálls in with a poet. BASSANO, August 21, 1856. TO DON PIETRO ABATE BONVICINI, WHO REQUESTED THE AUTHOR TO WRITE A VERSE IN HIS ALBUM. To bid me write 's to bid the drunkard drink, BASSANO, August 21, 1856. TO SIGNOR FRANCESCO AMBROSI OF BORGO, IN THE VAL SUGANA, ON HIS LEAVING BASSANO, SEPT. 12, 1858. FAREWELL, my friend, and, as thou hast begun, Its paths are pleasant all, and sweet and wholesome, And various prospect, shadowy or in sunshine. Then, when at last thy failing heart and breath On some bold cliff or jutting promontory Be these words chiseled: Thus far, his stout heart TO ROMILDA RAGAZZONI, FRANCESCO RAGAZZONI, AND GIAMBATTISTA BASEGGIO, ON OUR LEAVING BASSANO, SEPT. 18, 1856. ROUND this table, by this lámp's light, Round this table, bý this lámp's light, Round this table, by this lámp's light, TO SIGNOR GIAMBATTISTA BASEGGIO ON MY LEAVING BASSANO, SEPT. 18, 1856 FARE thee well! I don't complain that Thát thou tak'st that slice so sudden. I SAW, in Dresden, on a windy day, A man and woman walking side by side, I tell a pláin fact, not a poet's story, And to my reader's judgment leave the moral - When, lo! a blast of wind comes, and the man, Out of his mouth, ah, misery! his cigar; Her basket on the ground, and with her right hand The woman with the man, well pleased and happy. 3 CHEMNITZER STRASSE, DRESDEN, November 10, 1856. |