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# Page 176: "The Vartree" This is a text page containing a poem titled "The Vartree." The poem, prefaced by an Italian epigraph from Poliziano, is a descriptive lyric in English verse celebrating a picturesque riverside location. The poem praises the beauty of the Vartree's banks, vegetation, water, and shaded groves across different times of day, employing romantic imagery of dew, flowers, sunlight, and peaceful waters. The work appears to be literary content rather than sensational fiction, though its presence in this penny dreadful suggests it may be padding or an interlude within a larger serialized narrative.
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176 THE VARTREE. ; Quivi le piante pid che altrove ombrose E Verba molle, e il fresco dolce appare. Poliziano, . ‘* SwrEeErT are thy banks, O Vartree! when at morn Their velvet verdure glistens with the dew; When fragrant gales by softest Zephyrs borne Unfold the flowers, and ope their petals new. How bright the lustre of thy silver tide, Which winds, reluctant to forsake the vale! How play the quivering branches on ‘thy side, And lucid catch the sun-beam in the gale! % And sweet thy shade at Noon’s more fervid hours, When faint we quit the upland gayer lawn To seek the. freshness of thy sheltering bowers, Thy chesnut glooms, where day can scarcely dawn. Eiow soothing in the dark sequestered grove > To see thy placid waters seem to sleep; Pleased they reflect the sombre tints they love, As unperceived in silent peace they creep. cComicbooks.comi