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Oscar Wilde
1854–1900
"The Artist," from Poems in Prose
Autograph manuscript, undated. 3 p., including cover sheet for Poems in Prose
Gift of Lucia Moreira Salles, 2008
MA 7258.3
Transcription:
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fire and set it in a great furnace, and gave it to the fire.
And out of the bronze of the image of The Sorrow that endureth for Ever he fashioned the image of The Pleasure that abideth for a Moment. For he could only think in bronze.