An Old Town By the Sea

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Capitolo 8

him crowded with sailors and soldiers--in the war of 1812--it gives an emphasis
to the quiet that he/she broods him/it on to-day. The dawdler of what he/she sits a
you spend the summer afternoon on an it will pass black of anchor rusted in the shade of one of the
you negotiate to the wholesale silent, and it looks on the solitary river as goes murmuring
over the city, you/he/she cannot be too much thankful to the work of India to have
him taken elsewhere street.

That that a slumberous, delicious place, lazy that is! The light of the sun seems
a deep foot lies on the aces of the dusty bench to which it produces on the
heat a vague perfume of the cargoes of rum, molasses and spice
that had accumulated on him. The river is blue as the inside of a
harebell. The opposite beach, in the magic lights and oddly moving
of sky and he/she sprinkles, curtains long as the silvery coast of kingdom of the fairies.
Directly opposite you are the enclosure of military harbor and the quarters of his/her clean officers
and shops and arsenals and his/her enormous shiphouses in that the keel
of very a famous rubbing has been staid. That buildings of monster on the
water's edge, with their roofs perforated with small innumerable windows,
what wink as eyes in the light of the sun and the shiphouses. On Your
lies of right a cluster of small there is a dozen or more in the
I bring--on the widest of what you see the evanescence-street the rests
of of the earthworks vomited in 1812. Among this--Trefethren
Island--and the lie of Island of Peirce the Tightens. Perhaps a barking or a
recreation-of-war boat is doing above to city;  the carcass is hidden amoung the
islands, and the trees of cage have the effect to sweep through the dry land
earth. On Your left a bridge along it is, more than a quarter of a mile in
length, put on poles where winds or thirty feet it is I lavish the water,
conducting to the enclosure of military harbor and Kittery--the Kittery so often the theme of
The toward of Whittier.

This is a mere contour of the panorama that spreads her before. His/her
the beauty of changeful of form and color, with the summer clouds to be floating
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