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THE GENTLE BREEZE (L' AURA) RECALLS TO HIM THE TIME WHEN HE FIRST SAW / HER.
The gentle gale, that plays my face around, / Murmuring sweet mischief through the verdant grove, / To fond remembrance brings the time, when Love / First gave his deep, although delightful wound; / Gave me to view that beauteous face, ne'er found / Veil'd, as disdain or jealousy might move; / To view her locks that shone bright gold above, / Then loose, but now with pearls and jewels bound: / Those locks she sweetly scatter'd to the wind, / And then coil'd up again so gracefully, / That but to think on it still thrills the sense.