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visage in the mystic circle of Stonehenge tended the ver- 

 benas in his garden of love philters with more ceaseless care 

 than she gives to hers here in its quiet comer. It is almost 

 the last flower we shall pause before in her garden and we 

 turn away thinking tenderly of the dear old charmer and her 

 dear old verbenas, put where she should always see them, 

 partly because they were they and partly to call to her mind 

 sweet days of Venice, with its melodious calls coming from 

 gondoHer to wall and back again; for verbenas and Venice 

 must always run together in mind if you had known and 

 loved them together as one and inseparable. >»A 



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"A Saint-Blaise, k la Zuecca, 



Dans les pr^s fleuris cueillir la verveine; 

 A Saint-Blaise, k la Zuecca, * 

 Vivre et mourir 1^." 



