susurrate

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  • Borghese grounds, have passed the good-humoured _custode_ at the gate, responded a hearty "_da vero_," to the "_che bella qiornata_" with which we are greeted, tarried for an instant by the little pond to the left, and heard the Babylonian willow susurrate the same salutation to the water under its boughs, and then make for, and soon reach, the large ever-spouting fountain which is scattering its comminuted water-dust far and near, and bathes our cheek refreshingly as we pass it: and now we are at the Borghese dairy, and now by Raphael's little frescoed house, untenanted within, and with a solitary robin, the —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.
 

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