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The Poems of Richard Watson Gilder

Gilder, Richard Watson (1844-1909)

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MICHAEL ANGELO'S AURORA

THE MEDICI CHAPEL, FLORENCE

O majesty and loveliness in one!
Why art thou sorrowful, now night is done?
This is the dawn; why doth thy spirit quake?
O thou who wakenest! is it pain to wake?
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