Glittering and frost-like, and, as day drew on,

Melting away, an emblem of themselves.

Those porches passed, thro’ which the water-breeze

Plays, though no longer on the noble forms

That moved there, sable-vested—and the quay,

Silent, grass-grown—adventurer-like, I launched

Into the deep, ere long discovering

Isles such as cluster in the Southern seas,

All verdure....

In Venice, when again