"The hand that rounded Peter's dome And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity: Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew; The conscious stone to beauty grew."
Architecture

January 1, 1970

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Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Problem.

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