At Home And Abroad - Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe by Margaret Fuller Ossoli
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PART IV.
HOMEWARD VOYAGE, AND MEMORIALS 441 PART I SUMMER ON THE LAKES. Summer days of busy leisure, Long summer days of dear-bought pleasure, You have done your teaching well; Had the scholar means to tell How grew the vine of bitter-sweet, What made the path for truant feet, Winter nights would quickly pass, Gazing on the magic glass O'er which the new-world shadows pass. But, in fault of wizard spell, Moderns their tale can only tell In dull words, with a poor reed Breaking at each time of need. Yet those to whom a hint suffices Mottoes find for all devices, See the knights behind their shields, Through dried grasses, blooming fields. * * * * * |
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