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First Line: Down the narrow calle where the moonlight cannot enter
Last Line: Ah! Could this be death?
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Death; Venice, Italy; Dead, The


DOWN the narrow Calle where the moonlight cannot enter,
The houses are so high;
Silent and alone we pierced the night's dim core and centre --
Only you and I.

Clear and sad our footsteps rang along the hollow pavement,
Sounding like a bell;
Sounding like a voice that cries to souls in Life's enslavement,
"There is Death as well!"

Down the narrow dark we went, until a sudden whiteness
Made us hold our breath;
All the white Salute towers and domes in moonlit brightness, --
Ah! could this be Death?





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