Adding, Qual matto! Something yet remains

That makes you charming! Oh the feasts and wine,

The songs and poems, till at last too soon

We anchored in the bay of Naples. When

I saw Vesuvius, then I felt again

That sinking of the heart that I had known,

That sickness, strange, nostalgia, from a boy,

Of which a word again. But now it was

Precursive of the end, the finished idyll.

The Countess took my hand, with misty eyes—