Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Italy: Vols. XI–XIII. 1876–79. | | | | Appendix: Varignano | | Garibaldi | | Francesco dall’ Ongaro (1808–1873) |
| | Translated by W. D. Howells
FLY, O my songs, to Varignano fly! | |
| Like some lost flock of swallows homeward flying, | |
| And hail me Rome’s Dictator, who there doth lie | |
| Broken with wounds, but conquered not, nor dying; | |
| Bid him think on the April that is nigh, | 5 |
| Month of the flowers and ventures fear-defying. | |
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| Or if it is not nigh, it soon shall come, | |
| As shall the swallow to his last year’s home, | |
| As on its naked stem the rose shall burn, | |
| As to the empty sky the stars return, | 10 |
| As hope comes back to hearts crushed by regret; | |
| Nay, say not this to his heart ne’er crushed yet! | | | | |
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