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A STREET MELODY, by                    
First Line: A song soars from a sordid city street
Last Line: Assisi lifts her towers to heaven again.
Subject(s): Catholics; Italy; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Italians


A song soars from a sordid city street,
A boyish treble, wistful, sweet and clear.
Why should I hush a burdened heart to hear? --
Wild poppies flame and flaunt in golden wheat;
Brown Tuscan hills lie quivering in the heat;
Far Apennines their snow-lashed summits rear;
In Venice trolls a red-sashed gondolier.
A song? -- Italia blossoms at my feet!

Clinging Sorrento shines across the blue;
The Piedmont heights are wrapt in purple haze;
White oxen plough the wounded Umbrian plain;
Virgilian pastures glint with diamond dew;
And, far above, fired with the sunset rays,
Assisi lifts her towers to heaven again.





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