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Document Title: The Athenaeum, 1881, Part I
Author: John Francis (publisher)
Date of publication: 1881 January - 1881 June
Publisher: John Francis
Printer: E. J. Francis & Co.
Volume: 1881, Part I
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Holy Family by Michelangelo
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- Turn not the prophet's page, O Son! He knew
- All that thou hast to suffer, and hath writ.
- Not yet thine hour of knowledge. Infinite
- The sorrows that thy manhood's years must rue
- And dire acquaintance of thy grief. That clue
- The spirits of thy mournful ministerings
- Seek through yon scroll in silence. For these
- things
- The angels have desired to look into.
- Still before Eden waves the fiery sword,—
- 10Her Tree of Life unransomed; whose sad Tree
- Of Knowledge yet to growth of Calvary
- Must yield its Tempter,—Hell the earliest dead
- Of Earth resign,—and yet, O Son and Lord,
- The Seed o' the woman bruise the serpent's
- head.
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Transcribed Note (page 20):
* In this
picture the Virgin Mother is seen withholding
from the
Child-Saviour the prophetic book in which his
sufferings are
foretold. Angelic figures behind examine a
scroll.
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