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To Tarquinia Molza
By Torquato Tasso (15441595)
A Lady Celebrated for her Beauty and her Italian Verses
Mostra la verde terra
Translation of Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen
Mostra la verde terra
Translation of Jeremiah Holmes Wiffen
T
White violets, and the lovely sun
Its sparkling crown of rosy rays
O’er shaded vale and mountain dun.
Of genius, beauty, thought sublime,
Fling’st forth in glorious show by stealth
The riches of unfading rhyme.
Thus greenly mock the passing hours,
Thy verses all are rays of light,
Thy living thoughts ambrosial flowers.