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Boston To Florence

By Oliver Wendell Holmes

Topics: classic

Proud of her clustering spires, her new-built towers,     Our Venice, stolen from the slumbering sea,     A sister's kindliest greeting wafts to thee,     Rose of Val d' Arno, queen of all its flowers!     Thine exile's shrine thy sorrowing love embowers,     Yet none with truer homage bends the knee,     Or stronger pledge of fealty brings, than we,     Whose poets make thy dead Immortal ours.     Lonely the height, but ah, to heaven how near!     Dante, whence flowed that solemn verse of thine     Like the stern river from its Apennine     Whose name the far-off Scythian thrilled with fear:     Now to all lands thy deep-toned voice is dear,     And every language knows the Song Divine!

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Oliver Wendell Holmes

About Oliver Wendell Holmes

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809–1894) was an American poet, physician, and essayist. His poems "Old Ironsides" and "The Chambered Nautilus" are American classics. He was part of the Fireside Poets group.

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