I stood in Venice, on the ...

I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand; I saw from out the wave of her structure\'s 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 Look\'d to the winged Lion\'s marble pines, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles.
I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand; I saw from out the wave of her structure's 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 Look'd to the winged Lion's marble pines, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles.
 Lord Byron

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