<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115120" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet. On seeing the ivory statue of Christ</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The enthusiast brooding in his cell apart<br> O'er the sad image of the Crucified,---<br> The drooping head, closed lips and piercéd side,---<br> A holy vision fills his raptured heart;<br> With heavenly power inspired, his unskilled arm<br> Shapes the rude block to this transcendent form.<br> Oh Son of God! thus, ever thus, would I<br> Dwell on the loveliness enshrined in Thee;<br> The lofty faith, the sweet humility;<br> The boundless love, the love that could not die.<br> And as the sculptor, with thy glory warm,<br> Gave to this chiselled ivory thy fair form,<br> So would my spirit, in thy thought divine,<br> Grow to a semblance, fair as this, of Thine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anne+Lynch+Botta">Anne Lynch Botta</a> from <i>Poems</i><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115120" data-title="Sonnet. On seeing the ivory statue of Christ de Anne Lynch Botta" data-description="The enthusiast brooding in his cell apart/ O'er the sad image of the Crucified,---/ The drooping head, closed lips and piercéd side,---/ A holy vision fills his raptured heart;/ With heavenly power inspired, his unskilled arm/ Shapes the rude..."></div> </div> </div>

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