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TUSCAN OLIVES: RISPETTO 5 by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON

First Line: AT LUCCA, FOR THE AUTUMN FESTIVAL
Last Line: AS ON OUR RISEN LOVE OUR LIVES ARE GROWN.
Subject(s): LOVE; OLIVE TREES AND OLIVES; TUSCANY, ITALY;
At Lucca, for the autumn festival,
The streets are tulip-gay; but you and I
Forgot them, seeing over church and wall
Guinigi's tower soar i' the black-blue sky;

A stem of delicate rose against the blue;
And on the top two lonely olives grew,
Crowning the tower, far from the hills, alone;
As on our risen love our lives are grown.



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