AUX ITALIENS

R. Bulwer Lytton

At Paris it was, at the opera there;

And she looked like a queen that night,

With a wreath of pearl in her raven hair,

And the brooch in her breast so bright.

Of all the operas that Verdi wrote,

The best, to my taste, is the "Trovatoré":

And Mario can soothe, with a tenor note,