Assisi on a 20 Degree Afternoon

The travelers arrived in Assisi  on a chilly  afternoon.
The. View from their window looks onto  the Umbrian valley and onto historic  churches.


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It is clearly still winter here.



Yet the birds’ singing fills the air.
The trees are budding

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And the piazza fountain and every fountain is filled with ice
that’s even the schoolboys cannot break.
The fierce lions are miserable.