...of the time disconsolate To inarticulate murmurs dies away, While the eternal ages watch and wait. How strange the sculptures that adorn these towers...a cross of flowers! But fiends and dragons on the gargoyted eaves Watch the dead Christ between the Irving thieves, And, underneath, the traitor Judas...

...All the above description is most unsatisfactory. ON TRANSLATING THE DIVINA COMMEDIA. FOURTH SONNET. HOW strange the sculptures that adorn these towers...seems a cross of flowers ! But fiends and dragons from the gargoyled eaves Watch the dead Christ between the living thieves, And underneath the traitor...

...kneel in adoration before the eternities where deep calleth unto deep and spirit unto spirit answereth. "How strange the sculptures that adorn these towers...bowers, And the vast minster seems a cross of flowers !" "In this place will I give peace!" So it affected the Age that questioned not, but adored. Art served...

...All the above description is most unsatisfactory. ON TRANSLATING THE DIVINA COMMEDIA. FOURTH SONNET. HOW strange the sculptures that adorn these towers ! This crowd of statues, in whose folded sleeves Bird* build their nests ; while canopied with leaves Parvis and portal bloom like trelliscd towers,...