NEWS OF SPRING 



fruits that suddenly proclaim the royal 

 affluence of the soil that feeds them ; a 

 slope covered with lemon-trees, where 

 the night seems to have heaped up on a 

 mountain-side, to await a new twilight, 

 the stars gathered by the dawn ; a leafy 

 portico which opens over the sea like a 

 deep glance that suddenly discloses an 

 infinite thought ; a brook hidden like a 

 tear of joy ; a trellis awaiting the purple 

 of the grapes, a great stone basin drink- 

 ing in the water that trickles from the 

 tip of a green reed all and yet none 

 modify the expression of the restful- 

 ness, the tranquillity, the azure silence, 

 the blissfulness that is its own delight. 



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