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BUONARROTI by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG

First Line: NO LONGER COLD OR DOLOROUS, THE GLEAMING MOUNTAINS LOOM
Last Line: MAD ANGELO STILL PROVES THAT MARBLE LIVED -- AND NEVER DIES!
Subject(s): CLOUDS; MOUNTAINS; HILLS; DOWNS (GREAT BRITAIN);
No longer cold or dolorous, the gleaming mountains loom
High ecstasy freed jubilantly, artistry recaptures
When undulating streams of stone, quickened with lava hands,
Seize pyramids and carve them into bodies heat enraptures!

Though movement turn to weariness, now evening shadows near,
And amethyst and gold and silvered blue no longer rise
(A demon's conflagration solved in clouds and cooled to sleep):
Mad Angelo still proves that marble lived -- and never dies!



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