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PIAZETTA at Venice, with Columns of the Lion and of St. Theodore.

"I loved her from my boyhood

she to me

Was as a fairy city of the heart,

Rising like water-columns from the sea,

Of joy the sojourn, and of wealth the mart."

Island of San Giorgio in distance.

-Childe Harold, Canto IV, stanza xviii, p. 64.

Being a Selection of the Poems and Letters of
LORD BYRON

Which have to do with his Life in Italy from
1816 to 1823

Selected and Arranged by

ANNA BENNESON MCMAHAN

Editor of "Florence in the Poetry of the Brownings,"
"With Shelley in Italy," etc.

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COPYRIGHT

A. C. MCCLURG & Co.

1906

All rights reserved

Published September 29, 1906

About two-thirds of the illustrations of this volume are from the photographs
of Alinari Brothers, Florence. Many of the others have been furnished by friends
interested in the places celebrated by Byron.

528 My 187

TO MY FRIENDS

A. J. C.

AND

E. E. K.

Thou Italy! whose ever golden fields, Plough'd by the sunbeams solely, would suffice For the world's granary :

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Birthplace of heroes, sanctuary of saints,

Where earthly first, then heavenly glory made Her home.

THE PROPHECY OF DANTE.

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