Domodossola
ONCE from a summit met my enchanted gazing outspread a vast dim world with silvered streams, bounded by far serrations, scarce upraising the dull red orb above that land of dreams.
A lonely cypress, monument austere, upheld its warning-finger from the scarp. Suddenly below me sounded faintly clear
a bell : as though one plucked an unseen harp.
On the parapet a little maid was seated with dangling legs, a melon-munching maid ; her white teeth smiled, with_glMting eyes she greeted ;
then dropped and ran and vanished in the shade.
The sim dropped too.; the bell's last echo quivered- - through unseen spaces. Night had cast her spell. A chilly breath, dead day's last sighing, shivered.; - „
the somnolent cypress swayed ; and silence fell.
B. C. Batman.
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