Doubt and other things, verse and illustrations . [130] Digitized by Microsoft® The Victors In Lifes triumphant chariot rideThe strong, and proudly wave aside All sorrow, pain, and grief;Who breathing in the joy of lifeCannot conceive that for the strife One life is far too brief. But clad like glorious kings of oldIn royal purple and in gold, Heed not that pallid somber slave who mocks their whispering at their side, Thou goest to thy [131] Digitized by Microsoft® Revery Old! Yes, but not in revery;Young, poor, and gloriously free—Today again I sketching goIn
Doubt and other things, verse and illustrations . [130] Digitized by Microsoft® The Victors In Lifes triumphant chariot rideThe strong, and proudly wave aside All sorrow, pain, and grief;Who breathing in the joy of lifeCannot conceive that for the strife One life is far too brief. But clad like glorious kings of oldIn royal purple and in gold, Heed not that pallid somber slave who mocks their whispering at their side, Thou goest to thy [131] Digitized by Microsoft® Revery Old! Yes, but not in revery;Young, poor, and gloriously free—Today again I sketching goIn thy fair land, Boccaccio. See where my model waits for meUnder that ancient olive tree;No classic nsmiph or dryad a real girl in Tuscany. Yet something classic lingers there,For Zephyrus toys with her in her softly shaded eyesAmor slyly lurking lies. *Cara, the sun is getting low. One kiss more and I must go; But where is that bright-eyed little fellow Who carries my box and my ombrello? Peccato that reveries must close. Quando tomi?—*God only knows. A sketch, and low! a revery;A sweet girl waits beneath a treeForever in sunny Tuscany;At least in an old mans memory.
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