and finding that self same spot blending the old and new
then tea in florians and postcards home glorying even in the city ' s lesser glories a slice of delicious ornamental cake sugarcraft slowly melting in the tea
we went and we were conquered surprised by feelings of recognition that even now ebb and flow like the flooding adriatic tide
IV
in the glaze of blue you apply I see now your glistening eyes classical as lapis and in those tears of yours the moving waters of the sea
in the marbled elegance of gothic traceries the manner of your hand when you arrange and rearrange your marks protecting light upon the page
the cornelian reds you suppose I favour speak of love ' s danger
here in the preternatural silence of the remembering mind in these chaste letters is the sense of love ' s character