# The sea

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Venice

Now Venice is sleeping,

Venice is Sleeping Beauty,

Old and sleeping,

But Beauty.

She is, like an old actress:

Everything - in the past.

Centuries, faces, heroes...

Everything sank in waters,

Everything is forgotten,

But she doesn't want to be old!

And there are some moments,

When sometimes, during the sunset,

She puts on her marvelous dressing,

Which is made of gold.

14th November 2000

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The sea is marvelous-

I love it very much:

It's salty taste,

It's smell

And conversations with it;

I'm reading rhymes

To it-sometimes

It's strange, but beautiful

And sounds romantic.

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