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There is a heavenly terrace, flanked by , dark-shaded, turquoise body of water called

Lecco; to the right there lies the queen of lakes, the crown of Italy, a

corn-flower sapphire known as Como Over and about it--this terrace--poets

have raved and tousled their neglected locks in vain to find the perfect

phrasing; novelists have coone and have carried away peace and

inspiration; and painters have painted it fro it from another thousand this very minute It is

the Place of Honeymoons Rich lovers come and idle there; and lovers of

modest means rush up to it and down froio Eros was not born in Greece: of all barren , Hymettus, or Olympus, or whatever they called it in the days

of the junketing gods, is co and abode a

while upon this saer

Between the blessed ledge and the towering mountains over the way, rolls a

small valley, caressed on either side by the lakes There are flower

gardens, from which in summer rises the spicy perfurape-vines, terraced doard; there are purple

figs and white and rubysheer fro, salmon-tinted