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: