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VENEZIA, by                    
First Line: If we had met in venice, dear my heart
Last Line: Meet in your fair venezia some spring day.
Subject(s): Love; Venice, Italy


If we had met in Venice. dear my heart,
And you had been my broad-brimmed gondolier,
Together we had glided far and near,
Our souls the millionth of an inch apart.
In the May moonlight, Cupid, with his dart,
(His smile half merry, half a silly leer)
Might have inflicted wounds too deep to bear,
Without some slight assistance on your part.
Why have we met a drab half world away,
You in your shop, I in my dignity?
Oh, yes, I'll eat with you and teach and pray,
But cara mias have no effect on me --
At least, not in this city -- yet we may
Meet in your fair Venezia some spring day.





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