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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 328

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r! The great block fell aside, nor wokeTill, after years, one came aboutWith power strange secrets to evoke,And saw its flawless length, and brokeIts silence with his mighty stroke,And called its sleeping hero out. The marble flew in flakes of fire, The sculptor wrought in splendid strife ; His… … To one, this idle memory clings,His unknown dust the four windsblow; His name is with forgotten things. —Higher the other sits than kings,With those that give the old earth wings;For he was Michael Angelo. ^ J>

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