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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON LEAVING TAORMINA, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poet's Biography
First Line: O almond trees, beneath whose fruited shade
Last Line: Take on, I pray, one shade of pink the more.
Subject(s): Love; Sea; Soul; Summer; Trees; Ocean
First Line: O almond trees, beneath whose fruited shade
Last Line: Take on, I pray, one shade of pink the more.
Subject(s): Love; Sea; Soul; Summer; Trees; Ocean
O almond trees, beneath whose fruited shade
I lay these summer days and saw the sea,
The hills of Mola, and Calabria's jade,
Good-bye! Perhaps the god that yielded me
Such luxury of happiness, these clear
And brimming hours with you, will, in his grace,
Yield none again; and, summer, finding here
Your branches green, will find again the place
I love, not me. Thro' all the leafy years,
Others will come and love your loveliness;
Love with a heart as gay and free of fears
As mine, and, leaving, leave their souls no less.
But, ah, for me, when spring stands in the door,
Take on, I pray, one shade of pink the more.
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