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C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Italy
Italia! O Italia! thou who hastThe fatal gift of beauty, which becameA funeral dower of present woes and past,On thy sweet brow is sorrow plough’d by shame,And annals graved in characters of flame.
Byron.
Italy, my Italy!Queen Mary’s saying serves for me—(When fortune’s maliceLost her Calais)—Open my heart and you will seeGraved inside of it, “Italy.”
Robert Browning.
Fair Italy!Thou art the garden of the world, the homeOf all Art yields, and Nature can decree,Even in thy desert, what is like to thee?Thy very weeds are beautiful, thy wasteMore rich than other climes’ fertility;Thy wreck a glory, and thy ruin gracedWith an immaculate charm which cannot be defac’d.
Byron.