THE BOBOLI GARDENS, FLORENCE 



a beautiful setting to the phantasmagoria of the 

 past. Here too mingle memories of Austrian 

 and French occupation, of vanity and oppression, 

 making minor cadence to the C major melody 

 of to-day's United Italy. Shadow and substance 

 meet us in these royal gardens, where children 

 still play and lovers linger, and where poets 

 dream while history makes itself. 



H. G. 



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