Excerpt from The Poetical Works of Robert Browning, Vol. 12: Red Cotton Night-Cap Country, the Inn Album Red Cotton Night-Cap Country, Or Turf And Towers. 1873. I. And so, here happily we meet, fair friend! Again once more, as if the years rolled back And this our meeting-place were just that Rome Out in the champaign, say, o'er-rioted By verdure, ravage, and gay winds that war Against strong sunshine settled to his sleep; Or on the Paris Boulevard, might it prove, You and I came together saunteringly, Bound for some shop-front in the Place Vendome - Gold-smithy and Golconda mine, that makes "The Firm-Miranda" blazed about the world - Or, what if it were London, where my toe About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.