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Poems Of Robert Browning: Toccata Of Galuppi's, A

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From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Browning, Robert

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Toccata Of Galuppi's, A

Oh Galuppi, Baldassare, this is very sad to find! I can hardly misconceive you; it would prove me deaf and blind; But although I take your meaning, 'tis with such a heavy mind!

Here you come with your old music, and here's all the good it brings. What, they lived once thus at Venice where the merchants were the kings, Where St. Mark's is, where the Doges used to wed the sea with rings?

Ay, because the sea's the street there, and 'tis arched by . . . what you call . . . Shylock's bridge with houses on it, where they kept the carnival: I was never out ...

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