Colonial Ballads

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Colonial Ballads
Preston, Margaret (Junkin), Mrs., 1820-1897. [from Old Catalog]
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You never can : Why, that one vision there.
Cheapens my work below my own contempt, And turns my saints to purgatorial souls Whom I begin to hate.
Digitized byCjOOQlC CHILDHOOD OF THE OLD MASTERS. 227 PIETBO.
Nay, nay ! wipe out The interloper then : he shall not stay To vex you : 't is a varlet's trick to chafe Your patience so.
VEBOCCHIQ.
But he shall stay, to prove That fifty years of skill must yield before The genius that can pluck, at one first grasp, The heart of all my hard-won secrets
...out.
Throw by your narrow panels, boy, and match With frescoes' breadth, your strength — LEONARDO.
Ha ! say you so ?
— The very hungriest of my desires!
My angel, see, entreats. I '11 make the walls Of our grim chapel in the Apennines Alive with flowery wreaths of seraphs, till My father even will fancy that he walks In Paradise, with Dante, whom he loves.
Digitized byCjOOQlC 228 CHILDHOOD OF THE OLD MASTERS.
VEROCCHIO.
And I, from this day forward, I fling down My brush forever ! Fifty years of pains Quenched by the maiden effort of fifteen !


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