Show LT it MARKS harr 5 cuip red by au old church charch effect of f fugue music sic any old and beautiful church give g ive us all that is most moving and noblest organ i sm beauty absence of all things momentary and worthless exclusion ol of grossness of brute utility and mean compromise equality of all men before god moreover time eternity the past and the be great deau all noble churches give us this how much more therefore says the contemporary review st marks which is noblest and most venerable it has like no other building been handed over by man to nature time molding and tinting into life this structure already so absolutely organic so por for its curves and vaul tings its cupolas mutually supported up ported the u weight eight of each carried by all the very color of the marbles brown blond liv ing colors and the irregular symmetry flow flower er like of their natural patterning are all seemingly organic and read ready Y for vitality time has added that with the polish and dimming alternately of the marbles the billowing of the pavement the slanting of the columns colim ns and last but not least the tarnis tarnishing bi n of the gold ard and the granulating of the mosaic into an uneven surface tee gold seer seeming ning to have become ali alive T e and in a way war i egeata vegetable ege table ble and to have faded and shrunk ilie autumn leaves ore sunday morning they were sing rg some fugue composition compo sion by I 1 know not whom how well nell that music suited st marks the constant interchange of vault and vault cupola and cupola column and colt colemn imn handing sn their energies to one another the springing up of new nev details pattered gathered at once into the great g general detal balance balanca of lines and forces oil nil this seemed to find 1 its natural voice in that fugue augne to repress in that continuous revolution if theme chasing enveloping theme its own grave emotion of life everlasting being becoming becoming being |