Written at
Florence
not later than
21 April 1741
and introduced "Eleven
months, at different times, have I passed at Florence; and yet (God help
me) know not either people or language. Yet the
place and the charming prospects demand a poetical farewell, and here it
is." Shortly before leaving Florence, Gray sent it in a
letter of that date
to
Richard West
.
First published, untitled, in
Mason's
Memoirs (1775), 115.