All the seasons run their race In this quiet resting place; Peach, and apricot, and fig Here will ripen, and grow big; Here is store and overplus,- More had not Alcinoüs! (Henry Austin Dobson)

All the seasons run their race In this quiet resting place; Peach, and apricot, and fig Here will ripen, and grow big; Here is store and overplus,- More had not Alcinoüs!

Henry Austin Dobson

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