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VIGNETTES OVERSEAS: 3. NAPLES by SARA TEASDALE

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First Line: NISIDA AND PROSIDA ARE LAUGHING IN THE LIGHT
Last Line: OH WHEN GOD MADE ITALY HE WAS GAY AND YOUNG!
Subject(s): NAPLES, ITALY;
Nisida and Prosida are laughing in the light,
Capri is a dewy flower lifting into sight,
Posilipo kneels and looks in the burnished sea,
Naples crowds her million roofs close as close can be;
Round about the mountain's crest a flag of smoke is hung--
Oh when God made Italy he was gay and young!





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