On the Grand Canal, Venice

Byron lived at one of the Case dei Mocenigo on the Grand Canal from 1816-1819, and it was during this period that he wrote Ode on Venice in which he mourned the inevitable and tragic loss of the great city by the destructive water surrounding it:
Oh Venice! Venice! when thy marble walls
Are level with the waters, there shall be
A cry of nations o'er thy sunken halls,
A loud lament along the sweeping sea!