The Study of Poetry • Paragraph 1212
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On the arch where olives overhead Print the blue sky with twig and leaf (That sharp-curled leaf which they never shed), ‘Twixt the aloes, I used to learn in chief, And mark through the winter afternoons, By a gift God grants me now and then, In the mild decline of those suns like moons, Who walked in Florence, besides her men.