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Our Fathers Have Told Us, Part I. The Bible of Amiens

Note 4-9 — Chapter IV

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"Tu quoque, magnam Partem opere in tanto, sineret dolor, Icare, haberes, Bis conatus erat casus effingere in auro,— Bis patriæ cecidere manus."

There is, advisedly, no pathos allowed in primary sculpture. Its heroes conquer without exultation, and die without sorrow.

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