...simile at the close will be found in the opening stanzas of the fourth Canto of " Childe Harold :"— " I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace...rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand." Lastly, we have the passage in the " Doge of Venice :" — " As yet 'tis but a chaos Of darkly-brooding...

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...great poet of the nineteenth century in the well-known exquisite lines of his "Childe Harold:"— " I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs ; A palace...the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of an enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying glory smiles...

...enchanter." In the first stanza of the fourth canto of CJiilde Harold we have the well-known lines- — I stood in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace...the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of an enchanter's wand. In one of his letters Lord Byron tells us of his fondness for the above novel....

...of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, his thoughts turned from the profligate present to the historic past: I stood in Venice, on the "Bridge of Sighs;" A Palace...smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Looked to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles....

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...for the most airy fabric, and pure invention is but the talent of a liar. Lord Byron 'A DYING GLORY' I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace...Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, thron'd on her hundred isles! She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean. Rising with...

...than to yourself, I dedicate to you this poem in its completed state; and repeat once more how truly I am ever, Your obliged And affectionate friend, BYRON....structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand: 5 A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times,...