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Echoes from the Orient, with miscellaneous poems
Echoes from the Orient with miscellaneous poems Author:Edward King Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE BALLAD OF MIRAMAR. Nabresina's heights are fair, and Prosecco wine is rare ! Sweet Trieste upon her terraces is beautiful to see ; But the loveliest... more » by far of all things that lovely are On the Adriatic's sounding shores, will ever be for me Miramar ! O the sea is great and gray when the borras on it play, But as gentle as a maiden in a dream when sinks the wind : Maximilian, sailor born, sailing forth one gusty morn, In a skiff was rudely cast ashore, and thus he chanced to find Miramar. Hu had sailed to East and West, trodden lands accurst and blest; Set the royal Hapsburg banner up against the windy sky; And had followed it for years, knowing nor fatigue nor fears; And, when sailing proudly homeward, oft his ship had bounded by Miramar. Now, when cast upon the strand, 'twas as if enchanted land Opened suddenly by magic to his storm-bewildered gaze; Long he wandered in the vale, till a port where never gale Came to rage did he discover: then he hastened home to praise Miramar. : O the laurel-roses grow and the rich camelias blow In those valleys by the sea where the wild vine clothes the hills! O the nightingale goes mad, singing melodies half-sad, Half voluptuous, in summer, when the solemn moonlight fills Miramar. O the breezes from the South kiss the rose upon her mouth, And she blushes till her petals are with crimson flooded o'er. O the starry splendours break over thicket, grove, and lake, And the heavens seem with tenderness to bend and to adore Miramar ! Now the sailor-prince did bring home the daughter of a king, Fair Carlotta from the teeming plains beside the northern sea : And the bride was wild with joy, innocent, without alloy, When her princely husband told he...« less