Ryan, Sara Agnes · Chicago : The Mayer and Miller Co. · leaf 234
wall,— In deaths elaborate elect retreat. I was a Prince,—this monument was wrought That I in honor might eternal stand; In vain, subdued by Buonarrotis hand, The conscious stone is pregnant with his thought;He to this brooding rock his fame devised,And he, not I, is here immortalized. —James… … Tomb of Lorenzo de Medici Michael Angelo Michael Angelo. thrown aside as useless, having been spoiled inthe fashioning by a sculptor working on thebuilding of Maria della Fiore. He built a shedaround the marble and with his magic hammer,more potent than that of Thors of old, wroughtand chiseled…
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