What's O'Clock/If I were Francesco Guardi

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What's O'Clock
by Amy Lowell
If I were Francesco Guardi
4514717What's O'Clock — If I were Francesco GuardiAmy Lowell
IF I WERE FRANCESCO GUARDI
I

I think you are a white clematis
Climbing the wall of a seaside garden,
When there is a green haze on the water
And a boy is eating a melon in a beat with a brown sail.

II

I think you are the silver heart of a great square,
Holding little people like glass beads,
Watching them parade—parade—and gather,
When the sun slips to an opposite angle,
And a thunder of church bells lies like a bronze roof beneath the sky.