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Beppo: A Venetian Story - Illustration on Sermon | IllustrateTheWord

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Beppo: A Venetian Story

By George Gordon, Lord ByronSource: George Gordon, Lord Byron - PoetryDB (Public Domain)6164 words

_Rosalind_. Farewell, Monsieur Traveller; Look, you lisp,

and wear strange suits: disable all the benefits of your own

country; be out of love with your Nativity, and almost chide

God for making you that countenance you are; or I will

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