| John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| NUMBER: | 6238 |
| AUTHOR: | Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) |
| QUOTATION: | The hand that rounded Peters dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free; He builded better than he knew: The conscious stone to beauty grew. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | The Problem. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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