Then awake not, fair sleeper—believe he is here;

For the young and the loving no sorrow endures,

If to-day be another’s, to-morrow is yours;—

May, the next time you listen, your fancy be true,

‘I am coming—Sciàr—and for you and to you!

Sciàr—and to you!’

RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES.

FAREWELL TO VENICE

If I had been an unconnected man,

I, from this moment, should have formed some plan