<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=343158" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Alma Mater</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A haunted town thou art to me.<br>-- Andrew Lang</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>To-day in Florence all the air<br>Is soft with spring, with sunlight fair;<br>In the tall street gay folks are met;<br>Duomo and Tower gleam overhead,<br>Like jewels in the city set,<br>Fair-hued and many-faceted.<br>Against the old grey stones are piled<br>February violets, pale and sweet,<br>Whose scent of earth in woodland wild<br>Is wafted up and down the street.<br>The city's heart is glad ; my own<br>Sits lightly on its bosom's throne.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>* * * * * * *</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why is it that I see to-day,<br>Imaged as clear as in a dream,<br>A little city far away,<br>A churlish sky, a sluggish stream,<br>Tall clust'ring trees and gardens fair,<br>Dark birds that circle in the air,<br>Grey towers and fanes ; on either hand,<br>Stretches of wind-swept meadow-land?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>* * * * * * *</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, who can sound the human breast?<br>And this strange truth must be confessed;<br>That city do I love the best<br>Wherein my heart was heaviest!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Amy+Levy">Amy Levy</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=343158" data-title="Alma Mater de Amy Levy" data-description="A haunted town thou art to me. -- Andrew Lang To-day in Florence all the air Is soft with spring, with sunlight fair; In the tall street gay folks are met; Duomo and Tower gleam overhead, Like jewels in the city set, Fair-hued and many-faceted. ..."></div> </div> </div>

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