Ryan, Sara Agnes · Chicago : The Mayer and Miller Co. · leaf 342
air form, the quaint costume;Yet, nameless still, she sits, unknown,A lady in her youthful bloom. Fairer for this! No shadows castTheir blight upon her perfect lot,Whate er her future or her pastIn this bright monument matters not. No record of her high descentThere needs, nor memory of her… … Raphael. ,rTis not the ecstasy that glows In all the rapt Cecilias grace;Nor yet the holy calm repose He painted on the Virgins face. Less of the heavens, and more of earth,There lurk within these earnest eyes, The passions that have had their birthAnd grown beneath Italian skies. What mortal…
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