Genoa Trieste
Napoli Brindisi
Cagliari Salerno
Verona Palermo
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Wood and Etruscans
The debris of days
Spent by the Tuscans
In wine-stupored haze
Marble and sunset
With fire in the hole
White diamonds unset
Contrasting with coal
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Milano Firenze
Messina Bologna
I broke bread with Dante
And washed with ammonia
Torino e Roma
Livorno e Bari
I came a beachcomber
I left in a hurry
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And now I have heard
The town and the city
The old vox urbana
Just fills me with pity
se non e vero, e molto ben'trovato
Neatly done, though it would have been even neater if it had been a litany in Brittany.
Heh, I don't know Brittany as well...
se non e vero, e molto ben'trovato
Marble and sunset
With fire in the hole
White diamonds unset
Contrasting with coal
how rich a picture that provideds for me along with breaking bread with Dante.
thank you.
Thanks; glad you got something out of this! (Btw, the Dante was a nod to the author of the poem which inspired this - 'Virgil', who wrote 'Limoncello'.)
se non e vero, e molto ben'trovato
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