That part of the poem is representative.

It is the end of such a society as is drawn in _The Bishop orders his Tomb at St.Praxed's Church_.

That tomb is placed in Rome, but it is in Venice that this class of tombs reached their greatest splendour of pride, opulence, folly, debasement and irreligion.
Finally, there are a few poems which paint the thoughts, the sorrows, the pleasures, and the political passions of modern Italy.

There is the _Italian in England_, full of love for the Italian peasant and of pity for the patriot forced to live and die far from his motherland.

Mazzini used to read it to his fellow-exiles to show them how fully an English poet could enter into the temper of their soul.