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THE LITTLE FRUIT-SHOP, by                    
First Line: The little broadway fruit-shop bursts and glows
Last Line: Lo, a swart faun-god mid his votive fruit.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkinson, Florence
Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Fruit; Retail Trade; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers


The little Broadway fruit-shop bursts and glows
Like a stained-glass window rioting through the gloom
Of a grim façade; a garden over seas;
A Syracusan idyl; a lilt that flows
In chords of dusk-red colour; emerald bloom
Loved by the nightingale, voice of the voiceless trees;
Ripe orchards mellow with innumerable bees.

A dark Greek boy counts up with supple hands
Lucent rotundities, the Bacchic grape
In luscious pyramids, pears like a lute
Most musically carved, nuts from sweet lands
Demeter lost; oh, many a sculptured shape;—
Had he his panther-skin, the thyrsus and the flute,—
Lo, a swart faun-god mid his votive fruit.





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