"The architect Built his great heart into these sculptured stones, And with him toiled his children, and their lives Were builded, with his own, into the walls, As offerings unto God."
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Christus, The Golden Legend (1872), Part III. In the Cathedral.
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