wild flowers.
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The teeming splendour of our plain,
A sea of verdure lost in blue;
Our curving hills, the ripening grain,
With fireflies glittering through and through:
A sea of verdure lost in blue;
Our curving hills, the ripening grain,
With fireflies glittering through and through:
Our old tower[1] whence the owls would call
Oft and again their one sweet note;
The wealth of roses on our wall,
By summer, spring, and autumn brought:
Oft and again their one sweet note;
The wealth of roses on our wall,
By summer, spring, and autumn brought:
All in this pictured panel lives,
And like a charm unseals my eyes;
A spell divine a fairy weaves,
To clothe the earth with rainbow dyes.
And like a charm unseals my eyes;
A spell divine a fairy weaves,
To clothe the earth with rainbow dyes.
The moonlight and the sunlight clear,
The hope, the joy which nature wore,
Life, youth, and passion, all are here,
And Italy is mine once more.
The hope, the joy which nature wore,
Life, youth, and passion, all are here,
And Italy is mine once more.
- ↑ Hawthorne lived for three months at the Tower of Montauto, Bellosguardo, and there began "Transformation."
