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Updated: May 15, 2025
To gild refinèd gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. And, similarly, when He looked upon His work in Redemption and cried triumphantly 'Tetelestai, He placed it beyond the power of any man to add to it.
The sad, patient images by the doorways of the crowded church seemed suffering now chiefly from the cold. It was almost like a funeral the penitential violet, the wandering taper-light, of this half- lenten feast of Purification.
Am I carrying this particular taper-light of discrimination too far when I say that there is, to the Celtic mind at least, something humorously naive and childlike in Goethe, mixed in, queerly enough, with all his rich, mellow, and even worldly, wisdom?
The impression of walking for miles by taper-light between those close walls of brown friable stone, or that soft dusty ground, in a warm vague stifling air; the monotonous rough sides, the monotonous corners, the widenings in and out of little Galla Placidia-like crypts, with rough hewn pillars and faded frescoes; of the irregularly cut pigeon-holes, where bits of bone moulder, and the brown earth seems half composed of bone.
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