Bridge of Sighs

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Ponte dei Sospiri (Bridge of Sighs)
Rio de la Canonica
Ponte del Rimedio in background
Venice, September 2012

“I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand: I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand: A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying glory smiles O'er the far times when many a subject land Looked to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles!”

(Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV, Stanza I)