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SWEET OATH IN MALLORCA, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If you had, suddenly, been where I've been
Last Line: Then had you sworn the same sweet oath as I!
Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Mallorca; Majorca


IF you had, suddenly, been where I've been,
Under the sun among the almond flowers,
If you had dreamed and seen what I have seen --
The old grey olives and the old grey towers;
If, in bewilderment there had come to you
Over the hills, beneath the evening star,
The tinkling of the sheepbells, or the blue
Gleaming from where the happy wild flowers are;
If you'd been wafted to that fairy-land,
And in delight been lost and lost again,
And, walking with me, waved a friendly hand
To children smiling with the eyes of Spain;
And in full day beheld the young moon fly --
Then had you sworn the same sweet oath as I!





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