Sonnets in Switzerland and Italy | ||
69
LANZO D'INTELVI
We left the torrent in its sinuous cave,
Osteno's tower clanged out Farewell! Farewell!
Upward we went by cuckoo-haunted dell
And cricket-hearted meadow. Cheerly brave
The horses jangled onward, wave on wave
Green billowy slopes to far Porlezza fell,
Till on our left we heard deep Lanzo's bell,
And knew what hope of home its music gave.
Osteno's tower clanged out Farewell! Farewell!
Upward we went by cuckoo-haunted dell
And cricket-hearted meadow. Cheerly brave
The horses jangled onward, wave on wave
Green billowy slopes to far Porlezza fell,
Till on our left we heard deep Lanzo's bell,
And knew what hope of home its music gave.
Then down an English lane, through English air,
We, but just now in Italy, passed on,
A blackbird carolled with a voice of May,
When sudden at our feet a sapphire shone,
And with its villages reflected fair,
Blue deeps—a heaven on earth—Lugano lay!
We, but just now in Italy, passed on,
A blackbird carolled with a voice of May,
When sudden at our feet a sapphire shone,
And with its villages reflected fair,
Blue deeps—a heaven on earth—Lugano lay!
Sonnets in Switzerland and Italy | ||