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IN TUSCANY: MINOR NOTES; TWELVE RISPETTI: 12 by CORA RANDALL FABBRI

First Line: I HEARD A VOICE AMONG THE OLIVE-TREES
Last Line: HATH BROUGHT THE SONG FROM OUT THE OLIVE-TREES.

I heard a voice among the olive-trees,
A singing voice beneath a Tuscan sky;
So sweet it drifted to me on the breeze,
So sweet, I paused until the voice went by.
Like some white bird straight from the sunlit West
That brings its joy to a forsaken nest,
Into my heart, like some white bird, the breeze
Hath brought the song from out the olive-trees.



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