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Goldoni -- good, gay, sunniest of souls, -- / Glassing half Venice in that verse of thine, -- / What though it just reflect the shade and shine / Of common life, nor render, as it rolls, / Grandeur and gloom? Sufficient for thy shoals / Was Carnival; Parini's depths enshrine / Secrets unsuited to that opaline / Surface of things which laughs along thy scrolls. / There throng the people: how they come and go, / Lisp the soft language, flaunt the bright garb, -- see, -- / On Piazza, Calle, under Portico / And over Bridge! Dear king of Comedy, / Be honored! thou that didst love Venice so, / Venice, and we who love her, all love thee!
VENICE, _November 27, 1883._