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An architect's sketch book (1912)

Peabody, Robert Swain, 1845-1917 · Boston, Houghton Mifflin · leaf 36

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ony floats through the golden vaults;simple, innocent, solemn; trauncing the soul with chauntingchoirs. The organ notes cease. The day dies. We grope our waythrough the darkly glittering church, and come out upon thePiazzetta to find the outer world also golden. The white churchesand palaces set… … A Venetian Day 11 Sansovinos library and wander across the Piazzetta. The black-ness of the sky is studded with stars, and above San Giorgio isthe moon, showering light on the surrounding waters and definingin dark masses the island church. The slender tower shoots highabove that long line of nave…

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