Queen Berengaria's Courtesy, and Other Poems By the Lady E. Stuart Wortley. In Three Vols |
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[Beside Astroni's lake we rested while]
Beside Astroni's lake we rested whileThe woods remurmured to the turtle-dove,
And its rich note of deep and perfect love—
Green gleam'd they there in evening's gentle smile.
But oh!—that dove's dear murmur, that did pile,
Memory on memory in my heart, which strove
In dreams to greet full many a tufted grove
And wood of England stretched for lengthening mile—
Nor vainly strove!—Our Thoughts great Wizards are,
And make this outward world their spell obey.
I saw then where the vistas vanished far,
But glimpse of English hamlet—and where lay
The shadows darkling—the free light to bar,
What English flowers waved bright—what fern-leaves-plumes did play!
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