INTRODUCTION
New Year's Day at Asolo in the Trevisan
A large mean airy chamber. A girl, Pippa, from the silk-mills, springing out of bed.
Day!
Faster and more fast,
O'er night's brim, day boils at last:
Boils, pure gold, o'er the cloud-cup's brim
Where spurting and suppressed it lay,
For not a froth-flake touched the rim
Of yonder gap in the solid gray