The ring and the book . rts beat hard. 35 And brains, high-blooded, ticked two centuries since? Examine it yourselves! I found this book. Gave a lira for it, eightpence English just, (Mark the predestination!) when a Hand. Always above my shoulder, pushed me once, 40 One day still fierce mid many a day struck calm, Across a Square in Florence, crammed with booths. Buzzing and blaze, noontide and market-time. Toward Baccios marble,^ — ay, the basement-ledge O the pedestal where sits and menaces 45 John of the Black Bands with the upright spear, Twixt palace and church, — Riccardi where they liv
The ring and the book . rts beat hard. 35 And brains, high-blooded, ticked two centuries since? Examine it yourselves! I found this book. Gave a lira for it, eightpence English just, (Mark the predestination!) when a Hand. Always above my shoulder, pushed me once, 40 One day still fierce mid many a day struck calm, Across a Square in Florence, crammed with booths. Buzzing and blaze, noontide and market-time. Toward Baccios marble,^ — ay, the basement-ledge O the pedestal where sits and menaces 45 John of the Black Bands with the upright spear, Twixt palace and church, — Riccardi where they lived. His race, and San Lorenzo where thev lie. Repristination : restoration to its earlier delle Bande Nere (John of the Black Bands, nature. father of Cosimo de Medici), by Eaccio Bandi- 2 Book : the original is now in the Library nelli, in the Piazza San Lorenzo, between the of Balliol College, Oxford. Palazzo Riccardi (the palace of the Medici) Baccios marble : the statue of Giovanni and the church of San PALAZZO RICCARDI, FLORENCE. THE RING AND THE BOOK. 3 This book, — precisely on that palace-step Which, meant for lounging knaves o the Medici, 50 Now serves re-\#nders to display their ware, — Mongst odds and ends of ravage, picture-frames White through the worn gilt, mirror-sconces chipped, Bronze angel-heads once knobs attached to chests, (Handled when ancient dames chose forth brocade) 55 Modern chalk drawings, studies from the nude. Samples of stone, jet, breccia,^ porphyry Polished and rough, sundry amazing busts In baked earth, (broken. Providence be praised!) A wreck of tapestry, proudly-proposed web 60 When reds and blues were^d&ecl red and blue, Now offered as a mat to save bare feet (Since carpets constitute a cruel cost) Treading the chill scagliola - bedward : then A pile of brown-etched prints, two crazie ^ each, 65 Stopped by a conch a-top from fluttering forth — Sowing the Square with works of one and the same Master, the imaginative Sienes
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