The Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti Edited with Preface and Notes by William M. Rossetti: Revised and Enlarged Edition |
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THE LEAF
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THE LEAF
LEOPARDI
“Torn from your parent bough,Poor leaf all withered now,
Where go you?” “I cannot tell.
Storm-stricken is the oak-tree
Where I grew, whence I fell.
Changeful continually,
The zephyr and hurricane
Since that day bid me flee
From deepest woods to the lea,
From highest hills to the plain.
Where the wind carries me
I go without fear or grief:
I go whither each one goes,—
Thither the leaf of the rose
And thither the laurel-leaf.”
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