Open my heart and you will see
Graved inside of it, "Italy."
Such lovers old are I and she:
So it always was, so shall ever be!
HOME-THOUGHTS, FROM ABROAD
This and the following poem were first published along with Beer, which bore the name Here's to Nelson's Memory, under the general heading Home-Thoughts, from Abroad. The final member of the group, Home-Thoughts, from the Sea, was written under the same circumstances as the poem, How They brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix.
Oh, to be in England
Now that April's there,
And whoever wakes in England