Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891. Excerpt: ... THE FOUNTAIN OF THE ACQUA PAOLA 2 ) Of rushing waters! O the hot flood of sunshine Yellowly pouring Over and into thee, jubilant Fountain: Thy cataracts filled With vanishing rainbows, Shimmering lights As though the Aurora's Wild polar fires Flashed in thy happy bubbles, died in thy foam. Ever in joyous laughter Thy wavelets are dancing, Little waves with crests bright with sunlight Tossing their foamy arms, Laughing and leaping, Whirling, inweaving, Rippling at last and sleepily laving The mossed stone-barriers That clasp them round. Bright too and joyous, They, in the moonshine, When the falling waters Are as wreaths of snow Falling for ever Down mountain-flanks, Like melting snows In the high hill-hollows Seen from the valleys And seeming to fall, To fall forever A flower of water, Silent, and stirred not By any wind. Bright too and joyous In darkling nights, When the moon shroudeth Her face in a veil Of cloudy vapours, Or, like a flower I the wane of its beauty, Droopeth and falleth Till lost to sight, Stoopeth and fadeth Into the dark--Or when like a sickle Thin and silvern She moveth slowly Through the starry fields, Moveth slowly Mid the flowers of the stars In the harvest-fields Of Eternity: Bright too and joyous, For then the shadows Play with the foam-lights, With the flying whiteness, THE FOUNTAIN OF THE ACQUA PAOLA And snowy surging. But brighter, more joyous, Save when the moon-flower In all her splendour Floats on thy bosom, Or, rather, dreameth Deep in the heart of thee O happy Fountain: Brighter, more joyous, Thee, when amidst thee, Strewn through thy waters, The stars are sown As seed multitudinous, As silvern seed In thy shadowy-furrows: Seed of the skiey flowers That in the heavens Bloom forever, Blossoms and blooms of Eternal splendou...
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