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First Line: For thee, ausonia! Nature's bounteous hand
Last Line: To albion's coast and ever-varying skies.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Italy; Italians


FOR thee, Ausonia! Nature's bounteous hand,
Luxuriant spreads around her blooming stores,
Profusion laughs o'er all the glowing land,
And softest breezes from thy mvrtle-shores.

Yet though for thee unclouded suns diffuse
Their genial radiance o'er thy blushing plains;
Though in thy fragrant groves the sportive muse
Delights to pour her wild, enchanted strains;

Though airs that breathe of paradise are thine,
Sweet as the Indian or Arabian gales,
Though fruitful olive and empurpling vine,
Enrich, fair Italy, thy Alpine vales;
Yet far from thee inspiring freedom flies,
To Albion's coast and ever-varying skies.





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