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THE YOUNG GLASS-STAINER by THOMAS HARDY

Poet Analysis

First Line: THESE GOTHIC WINDOWS, HOW THEY WEAR ME OUT
Last Line: MARY, AND THINK OF APHRODITE'S FORM.'
Subject(s): ARCHITECTURE & ARCHITECTS; GLASS & GLASSBLOWERS; LABOR & LABORERS; PAINTINGS & PAINTERS; GLAZIERS; WORK; WORKERS;
'THESE Gothic windows, how they wear me out
With cusp and foil, and nothing straight or square,
Crude colours, leaden borders roundabout,
And fitting in Peter here, and Matthew there!

'What a vocation! Here do I draw now
The abnormal, loving the Hellenic norm;
Martha I paint, and dream of Hera's brow,
Mary, and think of Aphrodite's form.'



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