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352 pathy on your behalf, have hinted at the existence in you of soniething more than that with which Kingsley would have credited j'ou, who would Leave to Robert Biowning Beggars, fleas, and vines ! Leave to mournful Ruskin Popish Apennines ! ' 1 cannot leave this article without inscribing, for the fair fame of this country, a little song which I believe to be absolutely a child of the place. I will write it down without comment, and leave it to speak for itself in all its eloquent pathos and iia'irelc. feeling that in so doing I shall be pajing the highest of tributes, as well as adding the most characteristic touch of local colom- to Anticoli-Corrado : — Lo mio amor ch'i; andato in guerra, A difender la sua terra : E che totni, o che non torni, Lo mio amor senipre sara. Lo mio amor che ando soldatn, Ed ancor non c tornalo : ' O chetorni, o clie non torni Lo mio amor sempre sara.' l'En(^ SriinOEK. Anticoi.i-Corr.i>o, iSSS. AjN r It O t- 1 -*C B R:^J> DO