Lord Byron – Beppo part 1
Of all the places where the Carnival
Was most fecetious in the days of yore,…
Venice the bell from every city bore…
They’ve pretty faces yet, those same Venetians,
Black eyes, arch’d brows, and sweet expressions still,
Such as of old were copied from the Grecians,…
And like so many Venuses of Titian’s…
Her husband sailed upon the Adriatic,…
He was a merchant trading to Aleppo,
His name Giuseppe, called briefly, Beppo.
