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GLIMPSES OF ITALY: 3. OLD STORY-TELLING by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON

First Line: HEEDLESS GAY FOLK, LYING AT EASE AMID
Last Line: TO TALES ETERNIZED BY BOCCACCIO.
Subject(s): BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI (1313-1375); FLOWERS; GARDENS & GARDENING;

HEEDLESS gay folk, lying at ease amid
The fruits and flowers, far above the town
Whose evil case from them was duly hid
By olive gardens stretching down and down;
There, in the scented evenings long ago,
They laughed and listened in the afterglow,
To tales eternized by Boccaccio.



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