...stone a soul), and, since she sleeps, must live; You doubt it? Wake her, she will speak to thee. Ali ! glad am I to sleep in stone, while woe And dire disgrace...happy chance to neither see nor hear. So wake me not I When passing, whisper low. Lorenzo is represented sunk in meditation. Statues of Evening and Dawn...

...gran ventura ; l'irli non mi datar ; deh I parla bauo I while woe And dire disgrace rage nnreprovéd near — A happy chance to neither see nor hear. So wake me not! When passing, whisper low. Сотр. Swinburne's fine sonnet *Iu San Lorenzo4, beginning 'Is thine hour come to wake, О slumbering...

...e la vergogna dura flon vcder, non xentir m1 & granventura ; Perb non mi destar; deh! parla basto ! Ah ! glad am I to sleep in stone, while woe And dire disgrace rage unreprovdd near — A happy chance to neither see nor hear. So wake me not! When passing, whisper low....

...to thee. Michael Angelo, in allusion to the suppression of political liberty (see p. 621), answered: Ah! glad am I to sleep in stone, while woe And dire...disgrace rage unreproved near — A happy chance to see not nor to hear. So wake me not ! When passing, whisper low. Grata m' e'l eonno e piu I'esier di...

...la vergogna dura, Non veder, non sentir m1 e gran ventura. Peril non mi destar; deh! parla basso ! while woe And dire disgrace rage unreprove'd near — A happy chance to see not nor to hear. So wake me not I When passing, whisper low. Comp. Swinburne's fine sonnet 'In...

...reflected the troubled state of political affairs of the time ; the following is a translation — " Ah ! glad am I to sleep in stone while woe And dire...hear, So wake me not ! When passing whisper low." Apart from its inherent beauty of form and lines, and the splendid quality and finish of the modelling,...

...lost liberty of Florence, instead of awakening his statue, replied to Strozzi with another sonnet : "Ah! glad am I to sleep in stone, while woe And dire...hear. So wake me not ! When passing, whisper low." Thus he counsels Strozzi not to think of awakening the statue of Night, since it is better to sleep...

...corrupt century in which he lived, Michelangelo speaks through the mouth of Night in his famous verse: "Ah! glad am I to sleep in stone, while woe And dire...A happy chance to neither see nor hear. So wake me notl When passing, whisper low." Fig. 272. -Michelangelo. Pieta. (Cathedral of Florence.) Over his...

...lost liberty of Florence, instead of awakening his statue, replied to Strozzi with another sonnet : "Ah! glad am I to sleep in stone, while woe And dire...hear. So wake me not ! When passing, whisper low." Thus he counsels Strozzi not to think of awakening the statue of Night, since it is better to sleep...