. Six and one abroad. nor sublime, it is neverthe-leas beautiful beyond the power of description. It is a poem in marble, with every graceful arch a stanza andeach of its myriad statues a musical measure. If the creations in lace which Venetian experts had workedin silk was beyond my untutored faculties of appreciation, herewas a superb creation in marble lace that was so infinitely superbthat it staggered the understanding. 236 Six and One Abroad Take all the artful airy products of the needle, all the magnifi-cence of the mountains, the sweep of rivers, the flight of birdsand compose them wi
. Six and one abroad. nor sublime, it is neverthe-leas beautiful beyond the power of description. It is a poem in marble, with every graceful arch a stanza andeach of its myriad statues a musical measure. If the creations in lace which Venetian experts had workedin silk was beyond my untutored faculties of appreciation, herewas a superb creation in marble lace that was so infinitely superbthat it staggered the understanding. 236 Six and One Abroad Take all the artful airy products of the needle, all the magnifi-cence of the mountains, the sweep of rivers, the flight of birdsand compose them with the harmony of the grandest anthem,with not a broken pinion, nor a rugged chasm, nor a fracturedsegment nor a note of discord, into a symposium of translucentbeauty, and the result will just as apt as not be the Cathedral ofMilan. Like a queen in the proud consciousness of her station standsthis sovereign of the worlds marbles, gracefully erect under acrown of shivered spires and wearing a gown of faultless drapery. CATHEDRAL OF MILAN. that is plaited and paneled and tucked and ruffled into the mostexquisite of effects, the chief aristocrat of all the elite of con-structive art. And as one continues to look, enchanted, after the eye hascaught the rhythm of a poem in the first casual view, and alittle later the grace and elegance of a queen, the vision is in-variably transfigured into a sculptured garden where marbleroses are in bloom and marble foliage hangs in frozen grace, andvistas of delight open and close their ranks of fretted spires. I admit it all without a doubting if or a detracting * but. Queen of the Worlds Mardles 237 There is nothing else to do but confess. Criticism looks anddrops its pen and hangs its head in the presence of the Cathedralof Milan. Nothing but marble has entered into the construction of thismatchless building and that of the most immaculate of Paros,excepting the doors which are of bronze. Not a particle ofwood composes its anatomy or dress an
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