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TUSCAN CYPRESS: RISPETTO 1 by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON

First Line: MY MOTHER BORE ME 'NEATH THE STREAMING MOON
Last Line: THE ROSES I BEHOLD ARE WAN AS THEY!
Subject(s): SOLITUDE; TUSCANY, ITALY; LONELINESS;

MY mother bore me 'neath the streaming moon,
And all the enchanted light is in my soul.
I have no place amid the happy noon,
I have no shadow there nor aureole.

Ah, lonely whiteness in a clouded sky,
You are alone, nor less alone am I;
Ah, moon, that makest all the roses grey,
The roses I behold are wan as they!



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