The Bard to see all this—and what a smell of ile!
Punch, November 12, 1881.
Practical Venice.
(By a Commercial Childe Harold.)
I stood in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs;
A factory, a mill on either hand,
I saw from out the wave tall chimneys rise,
And wharves and busy steam-cranes edge the strand,
And palaces to warehouses expand: