The Dream of a Spring Morning (Paperback)

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.1902 Excerpt: ... By the myth and might of beauty, lead us and allure us still, Past the open door of wonder and oblivion's granite sill, Past the curtain of the sunset in the portals of the hill, To new provinces of wisdom, sailless latitudes of soul. I cannot but keep the splendid faith in good your lives extol, Well assured the love you lived by is my being's source and goal. Fearless when the will bids "Venture," or the sleepless mind bids "Know," Here among my lowly neighbors blamelesslet me come and go, Till I, too, receive the summons to the silent Tents of Snow. In a garden over Grand Pre bathed in the serenity Of the early autumn sunlight, came these quiet thoughts to me, While the wind went down the orchard to the dikes and out to sea. Idling yet? My flowery children, only far too well I see How this day will glow forever in my life that is to be I must go and pick my apples. There is Malyn calling me ) Bliss Carman. Xo THE DREAM OF A SPRING MORNING..; BY GABRIELE D' ANNUNZIO. Dramat1s Persons. The Mad Woman. Theodata. Beatrice. Simonetta. VlRGINIUS. PANFILO. The Doctor. A large covered portico, the roof upheld by columns of stone, in an ancient Tuscan villa called Armiranda, bright and still, like the wing of a cloister. In each of the two lateral walls is a door with sculptured architrave, between two statues raised on pedestals. Through the slender arches, whose only ornament is the swallow's nest, a garden can be seen, enclosed by hedges of box and cypress, from which rise, at equal distances, thick masses of privet cut into the shape of round urns. In the centre is a stone well, twined about with an iron vine, whose rusty tendrils and bunches of grapes are joined together to support the buckets. To right and left, against the outer walls, in the shelter of lo...