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Carmen Vernum
"O primavera gioventù dell' anno!
O gioventù primavera della vita!"
Tʜᴇ sweet Spring-season is the Youth of the year,
And Youth the high Spring-season of our days
That ever-alternating Youth I praise
Which makes our fugitive Spring-season dear.
As the light vapours of an Alpine dawn
Fledged by the sun swim upward into air,
And pearl dress the morn with plumes of rare
Laces of shimmering silk and windy lawn;
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