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- Title: Laurus Nobilis
- Author : Vernon Lee
- Release Date : January 01, 1935
- Genre: Fiction & Literature,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 222 KB
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One afternoon, in Rome, on the way back from the Aventine, the road-mender climbed onto the tram as it trotted slowly along, and fastened to its front, alongside of the place of the driver, a bough of budding bay.
Might one not search long for a better symbol of what we may all do by our life? Bleakness, wind, squalid streets, a car full of heterogeneous people, some very dull, most very common; a laborious jog-trot all the way. But to redeem it all with the pleasantness of beauty and the charm of significance, this laurel branch.