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NIGHT IN VENICE |
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NIGHT IN VENICE
Love, in this summer night, do you recallMidnight, and Venice, and those skies of June
Thick-sown with stars, when from the still lagoon
We glided noiseless through the dim canal?
A sense of some belated festival
Hung round us, and our own hearts beat in tune
With passionate memories that the young moon
Lit up on dome and tower and palace wall.
We dreamed what ghosts of vanished loves made part
Of that sweet light and trembling, amorous air.
I felt—in those rich beams that kissed your hair,
Those breezes, warm with bygone lovers' sighs—
All the dead beauty of Venice in your eyes,
All the old loves of Venice in my heart.
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