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First Reading. To Vittoria Colonna.The Model And The Statue.

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Da che concetto.     When divine Art conceives a form and face,             She bids the craftsman for his first essay             To shape a simple model in mere clay:             This is the earliest birth of Art's embrace.     From the live marble in the second place             His mallet brings into the light of day             A thing so beautiful that who can say             When time shall conquer that immortal grace?     Thus my own model I was born to be--             The model of that nobler self, whereto             Schooled by your pity, lady, I shall grow.     Each overplus and each deficiency             You will make good. What penance then is due             For my fierce heat, chastened and taught by you?

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