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"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!
_November 28, 1883._