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Venice
By Herman Melville

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	With Pantheist energy of will
	    The little craftsman of the Coral Sea
	Strenuous in the blue abyss,
	Upbuilds his marvellous gallery
	    And long arcade,
	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.


 
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