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Communications in SamoaTelephones - main lines in use: 8,000 (1994)Telephones - mobile cellular: 1,200 (1994) Telephone system:
Radio broadcast stations: AM 1, FM 3, shortwave 0 (1998) Radios: 178,000 (1997) Television broadcast stations: 6 (1997) Televisions: 11,000 (1997) Internet Service Providers (ISPs): NA Country code (Top level domain): WS
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Startles the air; no laughing shepherd-boy
Comes the glad sound of children at their play:
A man might dwell apart from troublous fear,
From amorous Spring to Winter's rain.html">rain and snow,
Are Lethe's waters, and that fatal weed
Like Proserpine, with poppy-laden head,
For though thy brood of warrior sons hath ceased,
Are faithful to thine honour:- guard them well.html">well.html">well,
To wake men's hearts to dreams of things sublime,
III.
Marks where the bravest knight.html">knight of France was slain,--
Gaston de Foix: for some untimely star
As falls some forest-lion fighting well.
He lies beneath God's seamless veil of blue;
And oleanders bloom to deeper red,
There, prisoned now within a lordly tomb
Huge-limbed Theodoric, the Gothic king,
Time hath not spared his ruin,--wind and rain
We see that Death is mighty lord of all,
Barbaric king, or knight of chivalry,
Beside the grave where Dante rests from pain.html">pain.
And cunning sculptor's hands have carven there
The eyes that flashed with passionate love and scorn,
The almond-face which Giotto drew so well,
Here in his place of resting, far away
Through the wide bridges of that fairy town,
A marble lily under sapphire skies!
Alas! my Dante! thou hast known the pain
How steep the stairs within kings' houses are,
Man's nobler nature with the sense of wrong.
Our nations do thee homage,--even she,
Who bound with crown of thorns thy living brow,
And begs in vain the ashes of her son.
O mightiest exile! all thy grief is done:
Ravenna guards thine ashes: sleep in peace.
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