Sketches And Studies in Italy And Greece, Second Series
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Theisland of Palmaria, rich in veined marbles, shelters the port; so thatoutside the sea rages, while underneath the town, reached by a narrowstrait, there is a windless calm. It was not without reason that ourLady of Beauty took this fair gulf to herself; and now that she haslong been dispossessed, her memory lingers yet in names. For PortoVenere remembers her, and Lerici is only Eryx. There is a grotto here, where an inscription tells us that Byron once 'tempted the Ligurianwaves. ' It is jus...t such a natural sea-cave as might have inspiredEuripides when he described the refuge of Orestes in 'Iphigenia. ' VI. --LERICI Libeccio at last had swept the sky clear. The gulf was ridged withfoam-fleeced breakers, and the water churned into green, tawny wastes. But overhead there flew the softest clouds, all silvery, dispersed inflocks. It is the day for pilgrimage to what was Shelley's home. After following the shore a little way, the road to Lerici breaks intothe low hills which part La Spezzia from Sarzana.
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