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By Lake Como's sylvan shore	A
Where the wavelets evermore	A
Seem to rhythmically murmur of the classic days of yore	A
Cease O boatman now to row	B
While the Alpine summits glow	B
Let me dream that I am floating on the lake of long ago	B
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Where the Tremezzina ends	C
And the bay of Lenno bends	C
Till the shadow of the mountain to its placid wave descends	C
On this strand of silver foam	D
Stood the Younger Pliny's home	D
When the world at last lay subject to the dominance of Rome	D
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Here he passed his sweetest hours	E
'Mid his statues books and flowers	E
With a life and list of pleasures not dissimilar to ours	E
For the city's rush and roar	A
Never reached this tranquil shore	A
And his writings prove completely that he yearned for them no more	A
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Here as scholar poet sage	F
He filled many a pliant page	F
With the philosophic wisdom and refinement of his age	F
And his letters to his peers	G
Through a life of smiles and tears	H
Make me often quite forgetful of the intervening years	G
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For the beauty of the bay	I
And the magical display	I
Of its coronet of mountains have not altered since his day	I
And the lake of which he wrote	J
At that epoch so remote	J
With the same caressing murmur laps my undulating boat	J
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Hence the subtle tender spell	K
Of the place he loved so well	K
Holds me captive and enchanted as these waters gently swell	K
And a vague and nameless pain	L
Makes me long for though in vain	L
That delightful classic era which will never come again	M
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Since the Goths' invading tide	N
Wrecked Rome's potency and pride	N
Something wonderful has vanished something exquisite has died	N
And in spite of modern fame	O
And the lustre of its name	O
Even beautiful Lake Como can be never quite the same	O
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So beside its sylvan shore	A
Where the wavelets evermore	A
Seem to rythmically murmur of the classic days of yore	A
Cease O boatman now to row	B
For while Alpine summits glow	B
I would dream that I am floating on the lake of long ago	B

John L. Stoddard

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