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For never, save to toil untiring, spoke The unwilling truth from her mysterious well The statue only to the chisel's stroke Wakes from its marble cell. But onward to the sphere of beauty go Onward, O child of art! and, lo! Out of the matter which thy pains control The statue springs! not as with labor wrung From the hard block, but as from nothing sprung Airy and light the offspring of the soul!
Here was interred with ceremony of waxen taper and mid-night requiem, the noble founder of this dilapidated fane, Sir Walter L'Espec, beneath that wreck of pillar and architrave and those carved remains of the chisel's achievement he who deemed that the sepulchre "Should canopy his bones till doomsday; But all things have their end."
They learned that two could work together in stone chipping and do better work than one. Old Mok would hold the forming weapon-head in one hand and the horn-hafted chisel in another, pressing the blade close against the stone and at just such angle as would secure the result he sought, while Ab, advised as to the force of each succeeding stroke, tapped lightly upon the chisel's head.
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