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A SUMMER NIGHT'S DKEAMING. 395
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I. How Misty, Faint, And Far Away
XIV . And when the deeper dusk tempts out
Shy starbeams from their sleep , A Thro flickering ' grove , and eddy garden ing , dancing round about rout , .
And in the still Of air golden ebb and fire- now flies , sweep kindling ; and throbbing as they go . XV .
Above the corn they love to lead Their merry torch-dance best . Those The hill tiny -side lamps peasant which bids " li Gro ht d speed the seed *
Up sunwards from its rest g . And still from sire to son believes , ' most fire-flies bring most harvest sheaves . ' XVI .
_Crood The night hoarse ! _Grood niht nig crickets ht 1 the wake games . are done _. The small owFs peevish g monotone f
That crieth " never more ! " alone The earth-stars Rings like their plaintive kin on thro hi ' the hmove brake in . briht mazes silentl gy ,
g , XVII , And to the languid watcher come
Those With visions charm of a of triple power home , younger Unwatched by Brunelleschi's dome
Dear English pasture And Giotto , wood ' s peerless , and stream tower , . how lovely and how far ye seem ! XVIII .
Oh for the bold green waves , to shake Yon Dull calm Arno sklike ' s sleepy a stagnant bed ! lake
Oh for the grand y west wind to make , Oh for one breath Its clouds of Eng fl lish y over hills head , tempering !— the heart for joys and ills !
_Theodosia . _Troeeope . Florence , June 24 : th _, 1858 .
on ¦* correct " Bel lucciolaio meteorolog , ical bel granaio observation " says . Their t the old common Tuscan t say proverb ing that , fo t unded he " lucc , no i doubt olafa tt ,
be twine found al _grano in the , " expressions is one instanc of e the out rural of a population housand of of Tuscany he poetical . fancy so ofen o _f There is a small sort of owl common throughout Tuscanywhich from the
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Her wailing , cry is frequently heard through the whole of the sultry summer nights . ' i '
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A Summer Night's Dkeaming. 395
A SUMMER NIGHT ' S _DKEAMING . 395
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1858, page 395, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081858/page/35/
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