<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=581605" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Venetian Serenade</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">One would think purple and green couldn’t <br>work well together, unless you’re in Venice where, <br>tucked in at eventide, gondolas slumber in colorful <br>array, anticipating the new day, while the setting sun, <br>low on the horizon, lulls the lagoon to sleep, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">lapping waves caressing, like the susurrus of<br>a Venetian lullaby. Royal purple tints the water, <br>as though The Master had dipped his brush in <br>Imperial Blue and with broad strokes blessed <br>the Grand Canal in benediction to the Medici.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But this blessing can’t last - this tribute to the gold <br>of Italy’s finest hour, this shimmering ideal reposing<br>in the dusky twilight of an age long past its glory, <br>hovering on the brink of a long summer day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Too soon dawn will come clamoring, dragging <br>along the multitude: buyers and sellers <br>crashing through the pungent streets, snatching <br>at her life’s blood, scattering her precious jewels</div><div style="margin:10px 0">like so much refuse until, at last, exhausted <br>and disillusioned, she folds her purple and green <br>into another sunset, sighs in weak submission, <br>and falls asleep once more to her Venetian serenade.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alicia+Patti">Alicia Patti</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=581605" data-title="Venetian Serenade de Alicia Patti" data-description="One would think purple and green couldn’t work well together, unless you’re in Venice where, tucked in at eventide, gondolas slumber in colorful array, anticipating the new day, while the setting sun, low on the horizon, lulls the lagoon t..."></div> </div> </div>

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