. The literature of all nations and all ages; history, character, and incident . heaven, raised by her love Who winged my laboring soul and sweetened fate. That sun hath set, and I with hope elate Who deemed that those bright days would never move,Find that my thankless soul, deprived thereof, Declines to death, while heaven still bars the gate. Love lent me wings; my path was like a st^ir ;A lamp unto my feet, that sun was given;And death was safety and great joy to find. But dying now, I shall not climb to heaven. Nor can mere memory cheer my hearts despair—What help remains when hope is lef
. The literature of all nations and all ages; history, character, and incident . heaven, raised by her love Who winged my laboring soul and sweetened fate. That sun hath set, and I with hope elate Who deemed that those bright days would never move,Find that my thankless soul, deprived thereof, Declines to death, while heaven still bars the gate. Love lent me wings; my path was like a st^ir ;A lamp unto my feet, that sun was given;And death was safety and great joy to find. But dying now, I shall not climb to heaven. Nor can mere memory cheer my hearts despair—What help remains when hope is left behind ? Lament for Life Wasted. Ah me! Ah me ! wheneer I think Of my past years, I find that noneAmong those many years, alas, was mine;False hopes and longings vain have made me pine,With tears, sighs, passions, fires, upon lifes brink. Of mortal loves I have known every one. Full well I feel it now; lost and undone. From truth and goodness banished far away, I dwindle day by the shade, more short the sunbeams grow \While I am near to falling, faint and M^ GIORGIO VASARI. As tlie biographer of the famous artists„ f,„-.^ . of Italy, Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574), of ~~-^--^^-^ Arezzo, must receive high praise. He was a pupil of the great Michel Angelo and of Andrea del was aided by the Medici princes. In 1529 he visitedRome and studied the works of Raphael and his school. Hisown paintings, although admired in the sixteenth century, arefeeble parodies of Michel Angelo. He painted the wall andceiling frescoes of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence. Pieamassed a fortune by his art, and rose to the supreme officeof gonfaloniere of his native town. He was singularly freefrom vanity and able to appreciate the works of others—evenCimabue and Giotto. Vasari also had a keen eye for charac-ter, and he has left us as superb prose portraits of the oldmasters of Italian art as any brush portraits by Raphael,Rembrandt or Van Dyke. His master-piece of biography w
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