Bianca Among The Nightingales
Yet souls are damned and loves profaned.
tingales will sing me mad!
tingales, tingales.
I marvel he birds can sing.
ttle difference, in their view,
Bet our tuscan trees t spring
As vital flames into the blue,
And dull round blots of foliage meant
Like saturated sponges here
to suck tent
Is oo in tis clear.
And still tingales.
My native Florence! dear, forgone!
I see across the Alpine ridge
feast-day of Saint John
S rockets from Carraia bridge.
ty, tall h fire,
trod deep do river of ours,
h lamp and choir
Skimmed birdlike over glittering towers.
I ingales.
I seem to float, o float
Doream in festive guise;
A boat strikes flame into our boat,
And up t lady seems to rise
As the shock had flashed
A vision on us! a head,
leaping eyeballs!amp;mdasy dashed
to splendour by a sudden dread.
And still tingales.
too bold to sin, too o die;
Such women are so. As for me,
I would we here, he and I,
t moment, loving perfectly.
caugh her loosed
Gold ringlets... rarer in th...
Nor anto bruised
to sness by h.
And still tingales.
S reac my
itongue, as snakes indeed
Kill flies; nor ,
Yearned after, in my desperate need,
And followed him as he did her
to coasts left bitter by tide,
in