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894 A SUMMER NIGHT'S DREAMING. ]
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I. How Misty, Faint, And Far Away
VIII . All down the scarp of Fiesole .
The terraced gardens glow . Basks Old Appennine as he basked , streaked "beneath red the and sway grey ,
When his Cyclopean Of some walls grave _xose Lueumo white , in rugged youth along the height . IX .
The cit Leans y , from forth the with warm ire hill and ' s breast dome Painted against the burning sp west , ,
As olden painters limned the blest , Whose skirts In trail robes forth of in violet misty bloom sheen , , with silvery river-lines between .
X . And where one rosy cloud , full blown ,
Shakes out it » radiant leaves , The _Vallombrosan hills enzone Their To rock northern y loins summer with hues eve unknown s
And melt thro' changes faint and fine to ; hoary olive , corn , and vine , XI .
Anon Thro the ' lissome the hot belfr stilliiess y tower clangs _" The twenty-four "—the vesper
hour—Few The moments queenl , flushe y day d lig with ht hangs failing , power , And hardly deigning to look back , glides down the sun ' s red chariot-track .
XII . Then knots of girls round doorsteps close
With strawplait on the knee . And busy , kerchiefed mothers prose O ' er distaff quaint or half-knit hose
Like chafers round a tree . And cool church portals thro' the street send incense-breezes faint and sweet . XIII .
Brown children in the freshening night Toss their bare arms and sing The " Who gay 'll old buy round carnations — "join red left and and white right ? . " " * While hed
With games that Ser cypress Boccaccio p layed ring with his bright bevy in their shade . * _None who have passed a summer in Tuscany will need to be reminded of the
and old r h ng yme ing parap in the hrased . Florence in the moonli text ght ; , for will many have a more group than of noisy sufficien children tly impressed dancing it tunities on their I here memory give . the But orig for inal the . benefit of those who have had no such oppox * -
Sch Gira iaccia in tondolo le noci per a far l'amore , Con im rnazzo di viole sapore ,
Le Blanche voleva e la rosse fantoccina , chi le vuole ?
Cade in terra la _pitt j > iccina . - .
894 A Summer Night's Dreaming. ]
894 A SUMMER NIGHT ' S DREAMING . ]
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1858, page 394, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081858/page/34/
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