Lambent Lagoon

Gondoliers navigate these old canals that saw much joy and cherished glory; go and tell about your trades and mischievous love-affairs, when voluptuous women enticed your many travels and drove you into flaming passions... Lambent lagoon, impeccably domineering, but impoverished by a loss so great... that even the Saint Mark's bells toll in regret! Lambent lagoon, your lost treasures weren't lavishly spent; they are still here hidden by sturdy walls, and cherished by people visiting a city trapped in its magnificence, unable to admit its decadence... Proud and handsome gondoliers, row your gondolas under the splendid bridges and sing of a glorious past that will never come back; these streets,squares and canals that marked its sudden rise, also lamented its quick dawnfall... with the sail-ships anchored at shore! Lambent lagoon, I rejoice in your indelible glories and express grief for your losses; but your greatness is still recaptured... to comfirm an aura so unconcealed by the appearance of the glimmering moon!