"Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, Lull’d by the coil of his crystàlline streams,Beside a pumice isle in Baiæ’s bay, And saw in sleep old palaces and towers Quivering within the wave’s intenser day,All overgrown with azure moss and flowers So sweet, the sense faints picturing them! ..."
January 1, 1970
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