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A TRADITION by GRACE E. TOLLEMACHE

First Line: INSPIRED, YET HUMAN IN HIS AIMS ALONE
Last Line: MADE THE SUPERBEST MARBLE-GROUP—OF SNOW!
Subject(s): MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI (1475-1564);
INSPIRED, yet human in his aims alone,
Servile to cold eternity he seemed
When seeking to immortalize in stone
Or frescoed walls, the visions he had dreamed;
But more like God, who not for length of time,
But the least part of His perpetual day,
Creates things so precarious, so sublime,
When once in most soul-sumptuous bravery.

So tells tradition—Michael Angelo
Made the superbest marble-group—of snow!



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