Water and marble and that silentness <br />Which is not broken by a wheel or hoof; <br />A city like a water-lily, less <br />Seen than reflected, palace wall and roof, <br />In the unfruitful waters motionless, <br />Without one living grass's green reproof; <br />A city without joy or weariness, <br />Itself beholding, from itself aloof.<br /><br />Arthur Symons<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/venice-11/
