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Even thus nor otherwise, meseemed That if I fixed my gaze awhile on what I dreamed Was Venice' Square, Mark's Church, the scheme was straight unschemed, A subtle something had its way within the heart Of each and every house I watched, with counterpart Of tremor through the front and outward face, until Mutation was at end; impassive and stock-still Stood now the ancient house, grown--new, is scarce the phrase, Since older, in a sense,--altered to ... what i' the ways, Ourselves are wont to see, coerced by city, town, Or village, anywhere i' the world, pace up or down Europe! In all the maze, no single tenement I saw, but I could claim acquaintance with.