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Updated: May 9, 2025
I passed a little village on the opposite side of the gorge. The houses, built of dark stone, even to the roofs, looked scarcely different from their background of bare rock. Weedy vine-terraces without vines told the oft-repeated story of privation and long-lasting bitterness of heart in many a little home that once was happy.
I was looking at the mournful vine-terraces, now mostly abandoned and grass-grown. 'Ah! said the octogenarian, shaking his head, and for once wearing a melancholy expression, 'the best wine of the South used to be grown there. Near a village a very tall pole, probably a young poplar that had been barked, had been raised in a garden, and painted with stripes of red, white, and blue.
I have allowed the land to go out of cultivation. The vine-terraces are falling, the olive trees are dying for want of cultivation. A few peasants graze their cattle in my garden, I understand. The house itself is only saved from falling down by the fact that it is strongly built of stone.
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