Queen Berengaria's Courtesy, and Other Poems By the Lady E. Stuart Wortley. In Three Vols |
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[I had passed through the ample plains, where Nature wears]
I had passed through the ample plains, where Nature wearsAn aspect most monotonous—to be
More charmed, when from one steep acclivity,
Proud Genoa, with her crown of towers, and tiers
Of palaced dwellings, was descried—she rears
Her brow of royal Beauty gloriously
O'er the blue Ocean—whose bright waves and free
Glass back that beauty, which thus more appears!
All had seemed bare and wintry to my sight
Till that glad moment! Winter seemed to flee
From that bright Ocean, clad in purple light,
With its yet bluer lovelier canopy.
Broad on my gaze, from that triumphal height,
The sunny South, at once, burst, with her sunny Sea!
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