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The happy bells shall ring Marguerite; The summer birds shall sing Marguerite; You smile but you shall wear Orange blossoms in your hair, Marguerite. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Wedded Knowest thou the land where the lemon-trees flourish, where amid the shadowed leaves the golden oranges glisten,--a gentle zephyr breathes from the blue heavens, the myrtle is motionless, and the laurel rises high? Dost thou know it well? Thither, thither, fain would I fly with thee, O my beloved! [Ger., Kennst du das Land wo die Citronen bluhen, Im dunkeln Laub die Gold-Orangen gluhn, Ein sanfter Wind vom blauen Himmel weht Die Myrtle still und hoch der Lorbeer steht? Kennst du es wohl? Dahin! Dahin, Mocht' ich mit dir, O mein Geliebter, ziehn. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister--Mignon's Lied Yes, sing the song of the orange-tree, With its leaves of velvet green: With its luscious fruit of sunset hue, The fairest that ever were seen; The grape may have its bacchanal verse, To praise the fig we are free; But homage I pay to the queen of all, The glorious orange-tree. - J.K. Hoyt, The Orange-Tree 'Twas noon; and every orange bud Hung lanquid o'er the crystal flood, Faint as the lids of maiden eyes Beneath a lover's burning sighs! - Thomas Moore, I Stole Along the Flowery Bank If I were yonder orange-tree And thou the blossom blooming there, I would not yield a breath of thee To scent the most imploring air! - Thomas Moore, If I Were Yonder Wave, My Dear Beneath some orange-trees, Whose fruit and blossoms in the breeze Were wantoning togther free, Like age at play with infancy. - Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh--Paradise and the Peri
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