His Deh Vieni, and such amorous airs,

Born only underneath Italian skies,

Where every fiddle has a Bridge of Sighs.

XVI.

Sweet was the tune—the words were even sweeter—

Praising her eyes, her lips, her nose, her hair,

With all the common tropes wherewith in metre

The hackney poets overcharge their fair.

Her shape was like Diana's, but completer;

Her brow with Grecian Helen's might compare: