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Title: Bright days in sunny lands
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Honeyman, A. Van Doren (Abraham Van Doren), 1849-1936
Subjects: Voyages and travels
Publisher: Plainfield, N.J., Honeyman and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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then, at the side, the Piazzetta, with the Lionof St. Mark, and with St. Theodore and the Crocodile,and the Ducal Palace; could only that famous and gar-rulous Venetian traveler, Marco Polo, have seen allthese works completed when, in 1296, he returned fromthe Indies, would he have exclaimed over the won-ders of Cathay more than at the startling doingsof his countrymen! To me any first view of St. Petersor of St. Pauls, any outlook upon the battlementedfortress of Edinburgh or of cannon-sown Gibraltar,even the wonderful spectacle of Moscow from Spar-row Hill—and that is almost ethereal—is not compar-able with a view of St. Marks Square under the fullblaze of the afternoon sun. For in this unique spot(at least until 1902) everything has remained asperfect as it came from the hands of the master build-ers, while the Athenic Parthenon and Temple of Jupi-ter, the Roman Colosseum and the Forum, are themerest shadows of what they were. I have alluded to the Piazza of San Marco as being.
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THE BRIDE OF THE SEA 271 till recently, perfect from the hands of the master ar-tists. Alas! the one tall, lordly Campanile is not there.When that fell it broke the heart of every Vene-tian, aged or young. I was in Venice at the time, andcount it one of my good fortunes—though it mighthave been a singular misfortune—that I sat nearits base, and heard the last piece of music playedbefore it, the night preceding that terrible disaster.It was on Sunday evening, the thirteenth of July, 1902,There was nothing in the conversation or appearanceof the people to indicate the unusual, although themusic suddenly ceased and the band left before it hadmore than half finished its announced program. Weknew afterward—on the next day, when the crash hadcome—that the band had been asked to quit the spot,for a crack discovered in the tower was widening andwas dangerous. No one else seemed to know of it orto care, for the people talked and sauntered and icedas heretofore. They did not realize the

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