<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">A Tribute from Italy.</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line"><span class="smallcaps">Albert</span>, thou standest where the storm-cloud lowers</p><p class="line">Unvanquished in thy glorious defeat.</p><p class="line">Oh! to strip Italy of all her flowers</p><p class="line">And bring them to thy feet!</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">No deeper sorrow shall Italia know,</p><p class="line">Whose sons for freedom's sake have fought and died,</p><p class="line">Than this -- that in thine hour of darkest woe</p><p class="line">She was not by thy side.</p></div><p class="byline">A.V.C.<br xmlns:exist="http://exist.sourceforge.net/NS/exist" xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"/></p></body></html> · Great War