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VENICE. - ZaunköniG - 05.05.2009 VENICE. Pale queen of the Adriatic, thou dost wear Thy diadem e'en yet, although it be Of sad wan stones, and funeral empery, Like that rude hands from Charlemagne did tear, With the sacrilege of his sepulchre ; but the air Breathes hot and sultry, and the languid sea Creeps through thy vague canals, whose apathy Summer weighs down, with dull and heavy glare. Not so 'twas in thy summer, which if now Making men's hearts like theirs who long have past To their immortal fashioning, it shone ; The piecemeal East might in thy mould re-cast Rise a Colossus of St. Mark ; and thou Bid him look north, and keep the Pontic throne. |