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Florence in poetry, history, and art (1913)

Ryan, Sara Agnes · Chicago : The Mayer and Miller Co. · leaf 408

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ed thus by Byron: c i There, too, the Goddess loves in stone, and fills The air around with beauty; we inhale The ambrosial aspect, which, beheld, instils Part of its immortality; the veil Of heaven is half undrawn; within the pale We stand, and in that form and face behold What mind can make, when… … The Treasures of Florence. Reels with its fulness; there, forever there,Chained to the chariot of triumphant art,We stand as captives, and would not depart.Away! there need no words, nor terms precise,The paltry jargon of the marble mart,Where pedantry gulls folly,—we have eyes:Blood, pulse, and…

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