A VENETIAN STORY,

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Whose rtints are truth and beauty at their best;

And when 3'ou to Manfrini’s palace go,

That picture (howsoever line the rest)

Is loveliest to my mind of all the show;

It may perhaps be also to your zest,

And that’s the cause I rhyme upon it so,

’Tis but a portrait of his son , and wife,

And self; but auch a woman! love in life!

XIII.

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Love in full life and length, not love ideal,

No, nor ideal beauty, that line name,

But something better still, so very real,

That the sweet model must have been the(ii .' 1 u - same;

A thing that you would purchase, beg, or steal,Wor ’t not impossible, bosides a shame:

The faco recals some-face, as ’twerc with pain,You onpe have seen, but ne’er will see again;