XIX MODERN FLORENCE

Hard by the home of Dante’s infant life I saw a Yankee “Kake Walk” advertised; Within San Miniato’s pillared aisle A Japanese was peering unsurprised; Where Michelangelo set “Dawn” and “Night,” And her, most blest, whose softly sculptured smile Glows with a maiden’s and a mother’s light, A German Jew was nagging with his wife.