“Oh softly blew the morning breeze” [“Chiavenna”] [poem]
oh softly blew
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the mor
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ni
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ng breeze
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Through Chiavennas myrtle trees,
And oer the green hills viny spread
That rose in many a rounded head
Beneath the Alpine rocks of red
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5
And the fresh snow had fallʼn that night
And sprinkled with its mantle white
The mountain amphitheatre
That rose around us far and near
Though in such far confusion hurled
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10
They looked to rule oer all the world
And the white clouds seemed to immerse,
Another ruinʼd universe.
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