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Sonnet--Spring On The Alban Hills

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O'er the Campagna it is dim warm weather;          The Spring comes with a full heart silently,          And many thoughts; a faint flash of the sea     Divides two mists; straight falls the falling feather.     With wild Spring meanings hill and plain together          Grow pale, or just flush with a dust of flowers.          Rome in the ages, dimmed with all her towers,     Floats in the midst, a little cloud at tether.     I fain would put my hands about thy face,          Thou with thy thoughts, who art another Spring,                 And draw thee to me like a mournful child.     Thou lookest on me from another place;          I touch not this day's secret, nor the thing                 That in the silence makes thy sweet eyes wild.

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