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[M.120L] [M.120] Landward view from Venice 120
reflected it in a metallic aqua marine - only its strong tide was
seen gliding and curdling in one flat mass of shallow water
that seemed to move altogether, without break or curve - and
the far away islands seemed gliding the opposite way: The
water was not bright - only lustrous & of delicate metallic
colour - for the sun was too low to make it luminous - and
the lower sky was hazy - and all of deep tone - so deep that
Murano and St Cristoforo, which caught the sunset light
full - seemed coming out of the dark haze in one
long bar of crimson light, which the eye felt - even when
it was directed elsewhere - in its constant & intense presence
of pure fire. Far away out of the mist the endless range
of the Alps lifted their jagged ridge of silver: melting
into orange light towards the west - when the flat main land
showed its long dark line along across their ghostly distance: and
the single square mass of the Church of Mestre being the only
object that broke its monotony: Close beside me, the green
clear sea water lay quietly among the muddy shingles of
the level shore, [?] so calm that it made a little islet
at the edge of it, of every stone: as clear as a mountain stream
and with here and there a large block of marble, marking
the outmost foundations of old Venice.
Note: just above the inlet between the Abbazia and Murano quay
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[Version 0.05: May 2008]