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CATHEDRAL OF MILAN by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE

First Line: WITH STEPS SUBDUED, SILENCE, AND LABOUR LONG
Subject(s): CHURCHES; TRAVEL;
WITH steps subdued, silence, and labour long,
I reached the marble roofs:
Awe vanquished dread:
White shone they as the summit of Mont Blanc
When noontide parleys with that mountain's head:
The far- off Alps, by morning tinged with red,
Blushed through the spires that round in myriads ·· sprung:
A silver gleam the wind-stirred poplars flung
O'er Lombardy's green sea below me spread.
Of these I little saw. In trance I stood,
Ere death, methought, admitted to the skies:
Around me, like a heavenly multitude
Crowning some specular mount of Paradise,
Thronged that Angelic Concourse robed in stone:
The sun, ascending, in their faces shone!




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