Lord Byron – Childe Harold Canto 4 part 2
Childe Harold contemplates the past glories of Italy in general and Venice in particular; “And is the loviest, and must ever be the master-mould of Nature’s heavenly hand, wherein are cast the heroic and the free, the beautiful, the brave – the lords of earth and sea”. He sees there “The commonwealth of kings, the men of Rome! And even since, and now, fair Italy! thou art the garden of the world, the home of all Art yields, and nature can decree;…”.
