The Study of Poetry • Paragraph 1270
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Their ghosts still stand, as I said before, Watching each fresco flaked and rasped, Blocked up, knocked out, or whitewashed o’er: --No getting again what the Church has grasped! The works on the wall must take their chance; “Works never conceded to England’s thick clime!” (I hope they prefer their inheritance Of a bucketful of Italian quicklime.)