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GLIMPSES OF ITALY: 3. OLD STORY-TELLING, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Heedless gay folk, lying at ease amid
Last Line: To tales eternized by boccaccio.
Subject(s): Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375); Flowers; Gardens & Gardening


HEEDLESS gay folk, lying at ease amid
The fruits and flowers, far above the town
Whose evil case from them was duly hid
By olive gardens stretching down and down;
There, in the scented evenings long ago,
They laughed and listened in the afterglow,
To tales eternized by Boccaccio.





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