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“Love can sun the realms of light.”
Schiller.
Schiller.
“These quiet and green places, these mountains and valleys, were created by Nature on purpose for loving hearts.”
Meli's Canzonets.PROEM.
Long left unwounded by the grisly foe,Who sometime pieces all with fatal shaft,
Still on my cheek fresh youth did lively glow,
And at his threatening arrow gaily laught;
Came then my friendly scholar, and we quaffed
From learning's spring, its sparkling overflow;
All through the lingering evening's charmèd hours,
Delightful fellowship in thought was ours:
If I from Poesy could not all abstain,
He my poor verses oft did quite undress,
New wrapt in words my thought's veiled nakedness,
Or kindly clipt my steed's luxuriant mane:
'T was my delight his searching eye to meet,
In days of genial versing, memories sweet.
January 1, 1882.
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