Uprose before our wondering eyes.

Above, mantled in its own loveliness,

Calling us sweetly from the bay

Up to its gentle, vine-clothed heights,

Sat radiant Casamicciola.

How thou and I the glad days spent

Thou knowest well. And now?

Now all is ruin and decay,

A ghastly tomb. We’ll let it rest.

Think rather of the linkèd lives