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Genoa and the Mediterranean
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DJSmurf
Fri Jul 13 2001 at 17:23:50
GENOA AND THE MEDITERRANEAN
(March, 1887)
Thomas Hardy
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Poems of the Past and Present
O epic-famed, god-
haunted
Central Sea,
Heave
careless
of the deep
wrong
done to thee
When from Torino's track I saw thy face first flash on me.
And multimarbled Genova the Proud,
Gleam all
unconscious
how, wide-lipped, up-browed,
I first beheld thee clad--not as the Beauty but the
Dowd
.
Out from a deep-delved way my vision lit
On housebacks pink, green, ochreous--where a slit
Shoreward 'twixt row and row revealed the classic blue through it.
And thereacross waved fishwives' high-hung smocks,
Chrome kerchiefs, scarlet hose, darned underfrocks;
Since when too oft my dreams of thee, O Queen, that
frippery
mock
s:
Whereat I
grieve
, Superba! . . . Afterhours
Within Palazzo Doria's orange bowers
Went far to mend these marrings of thy soul-subliming powers.
But, Queen, such
squalid
undress
none should see,
Those dream-
endanger
ing
eyewounds
no more be
Where lovers first behold thy form in pilgrimage to thee.
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