Show t I OLD MASTERS MASTER I Once did She hold the gorgeous East Easl EaslIn EastIn Eastin In fee fcc And was the safeguard of ot the Wet West the worth Of Vet Vet-ide did not tall fall below her birth Venice the eldest city of liberty She was a maiden city bright and free No guile seduced no force could violate And when she took unto herself a mate She must espouse the everlasting Sea And what If 11 she had seen those glories fade Those title vanish and that strength decay Yet shall some tribute of regret be paid When her long life lite hath reached Its final day Men are we and must grieve when even the shade Of that which once was great Is passed away Wordsworth Wordsworth- On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic |