 | Collected poems of Herman Melville |  |
VENICE
With Pantheist energy of will
The little craftsman of the Coral Sea
Strenuous in the blue abyss,
Up-builds his marvelous gallery
And long arcade,
Erections freaked with many a fringe
Of marble garlandry,
Evincing what a worm can do.
The little craftsman of the Coral Sea
Strenuous in the blue abyss,
Up-builds his marvelous gallery
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Erections freaked with many a fringe
Of marble garlandry,
Evincing what a worm can do.
Laborious in a shallower wave,
Advanced in kindred art,
A prouder agent proved Pan's might
When Venice rose in reefs of palaces.
Advanced in kindred art,
A prouder agent proved Pan's might
When Venice rose in reefs of palaces.
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