A wondrous city of fairest carving, reflected in gleaming waters swirled to new patterning by every passing gondola.
Source: On Venice; in Sylvia Pankburst: Artist and Crusader, by Richard Pankhurst, 1979.
-- Sylvia Pankhurst, (Jan 18 1882-1960), English suffragist; She launched, with her daughters, the British feminist movement; forerunner of the US version; won women's voting rights, 1918.