“The hand that rounded Peter's dome,
And groined the aisles of Christian Rome,
Wrought in a sad sincerity,
Himself from God he could not free;
He builded better than he knew,
The conscious stone to beauty grew.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

St. 2
1840s, Poems (1847), The Problem http://www.emersoncentral.com/poems/problem.htm

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