For they fling, whoever has a mind,
Stones at me for my year's misdeeds.
Thus I entered, and thus I go!
In triumphs, people have dropped down dead.
"Paid by the world, what dost thou owe
Me?"—God might question; now instead,
'Tis God shall repay: I am safer so.
MY LAST DUCHESS
FERRARA
In Dramatic Lyrics this was entitled Italy, and grouped with Count Gismond under the head Italy and France.