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VAUCLUSE.
Nowhere before could I so well have seen / Her whom my soul most craves since lost to view; / Nowhere in so great freedom could have been / Breathing my amorous lays 'neath skies so blue; / Never with depths of shade so calm and green / A valley found for lover's sigh more true; / Methinks a spot so lovely and serene / Love not in Cyprus nor in Gnidos knew.