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Dedication to Freeman lewis

September 27, 2010

Somewhere in Italy, along the Apennines
Where soft winds blow
Through the olive trees
And the sun of Italy shires

There is a tent that nestles
In the shade of a walnut tree
And within are paintings
The scenes of Italy

Freeman Lewis is the artist
And he paints there day by day
Pictures of dogs and wild life
And mountains far away

Sitting on a hill top sketching
The pale blue-misted hills
And while his hand moves freely
A picture soon unveils
Of plains that reel southward
And roads of dusty white
Of the evening sun that’s sinking
The coming of the night

Nature’s wonders he does paint
On paper, things of beauty
Of streams bordered with willow hedge
Of vineyards and of fruit trees

To Freeman Lewis we pay respects
By poem or by song
For his pictures will live long after
The time when we are gone

By William Teleske

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