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LANDWARD VIEW FROM VENICE
Refl[f]ected 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 and 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
Cristofo, which caught the sunset light full o 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 and intense presence
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 dark line across their ghostly distance: 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 quierly 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 Venice.
Note: just above the inlet between the Abbazia and
Murano quay
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[Version 0.05: May 2008]