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First Line: The fountain shivers lightly in the rain
Last Line: Change to a laurel in the glancing shower.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


The fountain shivers lightly in the rain,
The laurels drip, the fading roses fall,
The marble satyr plays a mournful strain
That leaves the rainy fragrance musical.

Oh dripping laurel, Phoebus sacred tree,
Would that swift Daphne's lot might come to me,
Then would I still my soul and for an hour
Change to a laurel in the glancing shower.






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