Poems (Mary Coleridge)/Poem 99

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XCIX VENETA
Wind and waters ring the bells
 That rang for them of high degree
Trumpets are the sounding shells
 In the city under the sea.

Where a Queen was wont to hide
 Her outwearied majesty,
Swim the fishes open-eyed
 In the city under the sea.

Many a street lies broad and fair,
 Many a palace fair and free,
Neither a man nor woman there,
 In the city under the sea.

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