Like the golden hope of the world, unbaffled

Springs from its sleep, and up goes the spire

While "God and the People" plain for its motto,

Thence the new tricolor flaps at the sky?

At least to foresee that glory of Giotto

And Florence together, the first am I!


"DE GUSTIBUS—"

Your ghost will walk, you lover of trees,

(If our loves remain)