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VENICE BRIDGE: FOR A PAINTING by HILDA CONKLING

First Line: AWAY BACK IN AN OLD CITY
Last Line: AND END IN THE SKY.
Subject(s): BRIDGES; PAINTINGS & PAINTERS; VENICE, ITALY;

AWAY back in an old city
I saw a bridge.
That bridge belonged to Venice.
It was to the rainbow clear
It traveled,
Over an old canal.
You had to pass a cloudy gate
To reach the color . . .
Bridges do sometimes begin on the earth
And end in the sky.



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