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First Line: Though searching damps and many an envious flaw
Last Line: A labour worthy of eternal youth!
Subject(s): Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519); Paintings And Painters


THOUGH searching damps and many an envious flaw
Have marred this Work; the calm ethereal grace,
The love deep-seated in the Saviour's face,
The mercy, goodness, have not failed to awe
The Elements; as they do melt and thaw
The heart of the Beholder -- and erase
(At least for one rapt moment) every trace
Of disobedience to the primal law.
The annunciation of the dreadful truth
Made to the Twelve, survives: lip, forehead, cheek,
And hand reposing on the board in ruth
Of what it utters, while the unguilty seek
Unquestionable meanings -- still bespeak
A labour worthy of eternal youth!






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