VAGRANT VERSE
THE PROBLEM. Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought! Never from lips of cunning fell The thrilling Delphic oracle: Out from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old: The litanies of nations came, Like the volcano’s tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below,—. The canticles of love and woe: The hand that rounded Peter’s dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew:— The conscious stone to beauty grew. —& ffis Emerson,
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Southland Times, Issue 19256, 21 June 1921, Page 4
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101VAGRANT VERSE Southland Times, Issue 19256, 21 June 1921, Page 4
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