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When the prima-donna of some vauntful city trills her bird-song above the foot-lights, or the cremona moans out the sigh of night-winds through the forest, artificial townsfolk applaud.

But in the flush and pride of having recently attained their national majority, the men of Vivenza were perhaps too much inclined to carry a vauntful crest.

Her screams are answered by the vauntful cries of a hawk; his red comb yet reeking with slaughter.

"Samoa," said I, "those isles of yours, of whose beauty you so often make vauntful mention, can those isles, good Samoa, furnish a valley in all respects equal to Willamilla?"

Yet shall not vauntful Death enjoy this prize,     This sun of suns which then he veiled in night;     For Love hath triumphed, lifting up her light     On earth and mid the saints in Paradise.