PIPPA PASSES;

A DRAMA

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1 DEDICATE MY BEST INTENTIONS, IN THIS POEM,

ADMIRINGLY TO THE AUTHOR OF ION,' AFFECTIONATELY TO MR. SERGEANT TALFOURD.

LONDON: 1841.

R. B.

PERSONS.

PIPPA.

OTTIMA.

SEBALD.

Foreign Students.

GOTTLIEB.

SCHRAMM.

JULES.

PHENE.

Austrian Police.

BLUPHOCKS.

LUIGI and his Mother.

Poor Girls.

MONSIGNOR and his Attendants.

PIPPA PASSES.

1841.

INTRODUCTION.

NEW YEAR'S DAY AT ASOLO IN THE TREVISAN. SCENE.-A large mean airy chamber. A girl, PIPPA, from the Silk-mills, springing out of bed.

DAY!

Faster and more fast,

O'er night's brim, day boils at last :

Boils, pure gold, o'er the cloud-cup's brim
Where spurting and suppressed it lay,
For not a froth-flake touched the rim
Of yonder gap in the solid gray

Of the eastern cloud, an hour away;

But forth one wavelet, then another, curled,

Till the whole sunrise, not to be suppressed,

Rose, reddened, and its seething breast

Flickered in bounds, grew gold, then overflowed the

world.